{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop180.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop180.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop180.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u00a0\u00a0On southern hills are mulberry trees,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On northern willows grow.\n \u00a0\u00a0Your presence here, my noble guests,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Makes my joy overflow.\n Your virtue's rays through all my regions shine;\n Myriads of years be yours in boundless line! p. 207\n3\u00a0\u00a0On southern hills the medlars thrive,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And plum trees in the north.\n \u00a0\u00a0Your presence here, my noble guests,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The richest joy calls forth.\n Parental love ye for my people show,\n And may your virtuous fame decay ne\u2019er know!\n4\u00a0\u00a0The southern hills the k\u2018ao display,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The northern have the niu.\n \u00a0\u00a0Here at our feast, my noble guests,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My heart rests glad in you.\n The eyebrows of long life your foreheads crown;\n Still wider be your virtuous fame's renown!\n5\u00a0\u00a0The honey trees on southern hills,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The y\u00fc on northern rise.\n \u00a0\u00a0Your presence here, my noble guests,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rare happiness supplies.\n Gray hair and wrinkled face yours yet shall be:\n May future times your sons as prosperous see!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book II. The Decade of Pai Hua: VII. Nan Shan Yu T\u2018ai","type":"page"}