{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop255.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop255.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop255.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Lo! double mats are spread,\n \u00a0\u00a0And stools are featly set.\n Servants in waiting stand;\n \u00a0\u00a0See host and guests are met.\n He pledges them; they him;\n \u00a0\u00a0He drinks; again they fill.\n Sauces and pickles come,\n \u00a0\u00a0Roast meat and broiled; and still\n Palates and tripe are brought.\n \u00a0\u00a0Then lutes and drums appear.\n Singers fine concord make;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0The joyous feasters hear.\n3The feasting o\u2019er, from bow,\n \u00a0\u00a0Lacquered and strong and bright,\n Four well-poised shafts each sends,\n \u00a0\u00a0That in the target light. p. 364\n The guests are ranged as they\n \u00a0\u00a0The mark have nearest hit.\n They shoot again; the shafts\n \u00a0\u00a0Are fairly lodged in it.\n Their bearing then is judged;\n \u00a0\u00a0Each takes his final place,\n As mild propriety\n \u00a0\u00a0Has round him thrown its grace.\n4The long-descended king\n \u00a0\u00a0Presides, and ends the feast.\n With spirits sweet and strong\n \u00a0\u00a0From vase he cheers each guest.\n And for the old he prays,\n \u00a0\u00a0While all with rapture glow,\n That they the wrinkled back\n \u00a0\u00a0And whitening hair may show;\n Striving with mutual help\n \u00a0\u00a0In virtue's onward ways,\n And brightest happiness\n \u00a0\u00a0Thus crown their latest days.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book II. Decade of Sh\u00eang Min: II. Hsing Wei","type":"page"}