{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop260.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop260.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop260.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Bring water from the distant pool,\n \u00a0\u00a0And let it settle in a jar.\n A spirit vase \u2019twill wash;\u2014such use\n \u00a0\u00a0May come from things that paltry are.\n You are our happy, courteous king,\n \u00a0\u00a0Born subject to a noble law.\n Like center to which all should turn,\n \u00a0\u00a0So you the people ever draw. p. 376\n3Bring water from the distant pool,\n \u00a0\u00a0And let it settle in a jar.\n All things \u2019twill serve to cleanse;\u2014such use\n \u00a0\u00a0May come from things that paltry are.\n You are our happy, courteous king,\n \u00a0\u00a0Set to fulfill a noble end.\n The center in which all have rest,\n \u00a0\u00a0The people's hearts to you should tend.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book II. Decade of Sh\u00eang Min: VII. Chiung Cho","type":"page"}