{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop169.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop169.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop169.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Heaven shields and sets thee fast.\n From it thou goodness hast;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Right are thy ways.\n Its choicest gifts \u2019twill pour,\n That last forevermore,\n Nor time exhaust the store\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Through endless days.\n3Heaven shields and sets thee fast,\n Makes thine endeavor last,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And prosper well.\n Like hills and mountains high,\n Whose masses touch the sky;\n Like stream aye surging by;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thine increase swell! p. 194\n4With rite and auspice fair,\n Thine offerings thou dost bear,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And sonlike give,\n The seasons round from spring,\n To olden duke and king,\n Whose words to thee we bring:\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"Forever live.\"\n5The spirits of thy dead\n Pour blessings on thy head,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Unnumbered, sweet.\n Thy subjects, simple, good,\n Enjoy their drink and food.\n Our tribes of every blood\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Follow thy feet.\n6Like moons that wax in light;\n Or suns that scale the height;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or ageless hill;\n Nor change, nor autumn know;\n As pine and cypress grow;\n The sons that from thee flow\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Be lasting still!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book I. Decade of Lu Ming: VI. T\u2018ien Pao","type":"page"}