{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop253.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop253.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop253.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u2019Twas the gift of high heaven\n \u00a0\u00a0That the throne did bestow.\n What success W\u00ean achieved,\n \u00a0\u00a0When great Chung was laid low!\n F\u00eang he called it, and moved\n \u00a0\u00a0There, his grand state to show;\n And our W\u00ean was a sovereign true! p. 356\n3He repaired its old walls,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the old moat he cleared.\n As his sires had oft done,\n \u00a0\u00a0So his new seat he reared.\n Not in haste did he build,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the son more appeared;\n And our prince was a sovereign true!\n4Oh! how brightly those walls\n \u00a0\u00a0Did his merit display!\n From all quarters they came,\n \u00a0\u00a0And would not be said nay.\n For to F\u00eang they repaired,\n \u00a0\u00a0Their true homage to pay;\n And our prince was a sovereign true!\n5East from F\u00eang flowed the stream\n \u00a0\u00a0That the same name did bear.\n \u2019Twas the work of Great Y\u00fc\n \u00a0\u00a0Made the water flow there.\n And to F\u00eang the states came,\n \u00a0\u00a0Wu their king to declare;\n And our king was a sovereign true! p. 357\n6Then to Hao Wu removed,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the pool-circled hall\n There he built, and received\n \u00a0\u00a0The submission of all.\n East, west, north, and south,\n \u00a0\u00a0Him their monarch they call;\n And our king was a sovereign true!\n7Having thought of the site,\n \u00a0\u00a0By the shell Wu divined.\n As the shell answer gave,\n \u00a0\u00a0So the site was assigned.\n Thus King Wu dwelt in Hao,\n \u00a0\u00a0Where his city we find;\n And our Wu was a sovereign true!\n8Where the F\u00eang water flows,\n \u00a0\u00a0Is the white millet grown.\n In the men Wu employed\n \u00a0\u00a0How his merit was shown!\n To his sons he would leave\n \u00a0\u00a0His wise plans and his throne;\n And our Wu was a sovereign true!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book I. Decade of King W\u00ean: X. W\u00ean Wang Yu Sh\u00eang","type":"page"}