{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop249.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop249.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop249.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2W\u00ean formed himself upon his sires,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nor gave their spirits pain.\n Well pleased were they. Next he inspires\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His wife. His brethren fain\n To follow were. In every state\n The chiefs on his example wait. p. 346\n3In palace see him,\u2014bland, serene;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In fane, with rev\u2019rent fear.\n Unseen by man, he felt still seen\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By spirits always near.\n Unweariedly did he maintain\n His virtue pure, and free from stain.\n4Some great calamities there came,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Which he could not control.\n But none his generous aim might blame,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nought darken his bright soul.\n Untaught, the right he ever saw;\n Reproof he needed not, nor law.\n5Grown men through him in virtue grew;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Young men attainments made.\n Aye to himself our prince was true,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nor weariness displayed.\n His officers acquired great fame;\n To him they owed their deathless name.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book I. Decade of King W\u00ean: VI. Ss\u016d Ch\u2018i","type":"page"}