{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop258.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop258.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop258.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2By virtue sought, fresh honors shine;\n \u00a0\u00a0All other blessings follow sure. p. 370\n Admired and reverent, lo! his line\n \u00a0\u00a0Through myriad ages shall endure.\n From error free, to duty true,\n \u00a0\u00a0They rule the states, they fill the throne.\n Nor shall they fail with homage due\n \u00a0\u00a0The olden statutes aye to own.\n3A bearing high and self-restrained\n \u00a0\u00a0May they in all their conduct show!\n And thus their virtuous fame unstained\n \u00a0\u00a0With lapse of time still brighter grow!\n From jealousies and envies free,\n \u00a0\u00a0May they advance the good to place!\n And blessings, boundless in degree,\n \u00a0\u00a0Their rule through all our regions grace!\n4 When so those sons of Heaven shall sway,\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor greater cares their care withdraw\n From smallest things, friends shall obey,\n \u00a0\u00a0And find repose beneath their law.\n \u00a0\u00a0Love shall around them cast its chain,\n Kings who not idly fill their seat.\n \u00a0\u00a0The people restful peace shall gain,\n And each king with their praises greet.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book II. Decade of Sh\u00eang Min: V. Chia Lo","type":"page"}