{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop200.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop200.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop200.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Sublime that southern hill, with vegetation grand!\n More awful thou, great Yin, whom as unjust we brand.\n With pestilence and death, Heaven aids disorder's sway;\n A silent nation frowns;\u2014thou changest not thy way!\n3On Yin our Chou depends. By justice he should bind\n Our many states in one, with no disloyal mind,\n And guide the people right, thus helpful to the king.\n O cruel Heaven, that he such woes on all should bring!\n4In him, himself inert, the people put no trust.\n He, treacherous, from place and council keeps the just. p. 237\n Mean men, unfairly screened, the common weal destroy,\n And his vile relatives the highest posts enjoy.\n5Great Heaven, unjust, the land exhausts with all these pains.\n Great Heaven, unkind, these woes upon it ceaseless rains.\n Oh! were the good in power, men's hearts would be at peace!\n And \u2019neath impartial rule, our wranglings soon would cease.\n6O great unpitying Heaven, our troubles have no close!\n With every month they grow; men's minds know no repose.\n My heart with grief is drunk. What weak hand holds the reins? p. 238\n \u2019Tis Yin's supineness that augments the people's pains.\n7I yoke my steeds long-necked, and through the land I hie.\n From the distress on every side vain the attempt to fly!\n8Here evil rampant bares the spear;\u2014they fight with rage,\n Then pacified and friends, in revel they engage.\n9This is from Heaven unjust. Our king has no repose.\n Infatuate Yin rejects all counselors as foes.\n10This song by me, Chia-fu, the king's sad case relates.\n Would he but change his heart, and nurse the myriad states!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book IV. The Decade of Ch\u2018i Fu: VII. Chieh Nan Shan","type":"page"}