{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop225.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop225.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop225.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2The yellow ducks upon the dam oft rest,\n Each with its left wing \u2019gainst its neighbor's pressed;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Their mutual fondness thus they show.\n Heaven to the king ten thousand years assign!\n And blessings lasting in unbroken line\n \u00a0\u00a0Upon his merit great bestow!\n3The stables large the teams of steeds contain;\u2014\n In peace with forage, and in war with grain,\n \u00a0\u00a0Abundantly they are supplied.\n May the king's life extend ten thousand years,\n While all that lengthened time no sign appears\n \u00a0\u00a0Of wealth or happiness denied!\n4The stables large contain the numerous teams;\u2014\n Forage they get in peace; in war there gleams\n \u00a0\u00a0In every manger store of grain.\n Ten thousand years may our great sovereign live,\n And Heaven the wealth and blessing ever give,\n \u00a0\u00a0Which shall his comforting maintain!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VII. Decade of Sang Hu: II. Y\u00fcan Yang","type":"page"}