{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop256.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop256.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop256.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2You gave us of the brimming cup,\n \u00a0\u00a0And dainty viands spread.\n May you, great king, forever live!\n \u00a0\u00a0Your splendor never fade!\n3Yea, perfect may your wisdom be,\n \u00a0\u00a0Achieving its high aim!\n \"First ends in last; last springs from first;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Revealed, that message came. p. 366\n4What said the message from your sires?\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Vessels and gifts are clean;\n And all your friends, assisting you,\n \u00a0\u00a0Behave with reverent mien.\n5\"Most reverently you did your part,\n \u00a0\u00a0And reverent by your side\n Your son appeared. On you henceforth\n \u00a0\u00a0Shall ceaseless blessings bide.\n6\"What shall the ceaseless blessing be?\n \u00a0\u00a0That in your palace high\n For myriad years you dwell in peace,\n \u00a0\u00a0Rich in posterity.\n7\"What of the sons shall from you flow?\n \u00a0\u00a0Through you, thus blessed of Heaven,\n Those myriad years of royal sway\n \u00a0\u00a0Shall to your sons be given.\n8\"And whence shall come that lustrous race?\n \u00a0\u00a0From your heroic wife.\n From her shall come the line of sons\n \u00a0\u00a0To live again your life.\"","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book II. Decade of Sh\u00eang Min: III. Chi Tsui","type":"page"}