{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop236.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop236.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop236.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2We pushed our barrows, and our burdens bore;\n \u00a0\u00a0We drove our wagons, and our oxen led.\n \"The work once done, our labor there is o\u2019er,\n \u00a0\u00a0And home we travel,\" to ourselves we said. p. 320\n3Close kept our footmen round the chariot track;\n \u00a0\u00a0Our eager host in close battalions sped.\n \"When once our work is done, then we go back,\n \u00a0\u00a0Our labor over,\" to themselves they said.\n4Hard was the work we had at Seay to do,\n \u00a0\u00a0But Shao's great earl the city soon upreared\n The host its service gave with ardor true;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Such power in all the earl's commands appeared!\n5We did on plains and low lands what was meet;\n \u00a0\u00a0We cleared the springs and streams, the land to drain.\n The earl of Shao announced his work complete,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the king's heart reposed, at rest again.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book VIII. The Decade of Tu J\u00ean Shih: III. Chu Miao","type":"page"}