{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop272.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop272.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop272.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2Next to the chief of Yin \u2019twas said:\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Charge Hsiu-fu, earl of Ch\u2018\u00eang,\n The ranks to range, and warning dread\n \u00a0\u00a0Make through the host to ring.\n Our march along the Huai's bank lies;\n \u00a0\u00a0Against Hs\u00fc must our enterprise\n Rapid and sure be made.\n \u00a0\u00a0Delay we brook not, nor to hold\n The land we take, lest the threefold\n \u00a0\u00a0Work in the fields be stayed.\"\n3The son of Heaven calm, trustful was,\n \u00a0\u00a0Majestic in his strength.\n His troops advanced, no crowded mass,\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor lines of broken length. p. 425\n From stage to stage, as on they went,\n \u00a0\u00a0The land of Hs\u00fc with terror rent,\n Its people all unmanned.\n \u00a0\u00a0As when men hear the thunder's roll,\n Or sudden crash, and quake in soul,\n \u00a0\u00a0So now shook all the land.\n4The king aroused his martial might,\n \u00a0\u00a0As he were moved with rage.\n His tiger chiefs he sent to fight;\n \u00a0\u00a0And eager to engage\n Well named were they! Along Huai's banks\n \u00a0\u00a0Soon grandly moved the royal ranks.\n A captive crowd was held.\n \u00a0\u00a0Securely kept the country round,\n No rebel hosts a passage found,\n \u00a0\u00a0Succor to Hs\u00fc to yield.\n5Numerous the legions, moving fleet,\n \u00a0\u00a0As if on wings they flew;\n Grand as the Chiang and Han, when meet\n \u00a0\u00a0Their mingled streams the view. p. 426\n Solid as mountain mass they seemed,\n \u00a0\u00a0And brightly as the river gleamed,\n Whose waters ceaseless rush.\n \u00a0\u00a0Continuous, in order sure,\n Inscrutable, success secure,\n \u00a0\u00a0They marched revolt to crush.\n6The king's plans truthful and sincere,\n \u00a0\u00a0Hs\u00fc's tribes at once sought peace.\n Its chiefs assembled all; their prayer\n \u00a0\u00a0Was for the royal grace.\n And quickly by the son of Heaven\n \u00a0\u00a0Was order to the country given;\n In solemn court he shone.\n \u00a0\u00a0Before him came the chiefs, and swore\n That they would break their faith no more.\n \u00a0\u00a0\"The war,\" he said, \"is done.\"","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book III. Decade of Tang: IX. Chang Wu","type":"page"}