{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop275.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop275.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop275.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Confucianism\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nThe Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n \n p. 433\n PART IV\n ODES OF THE TEMPLE AND THE ALTAR\n BOOK I. SACRIFICIAL ODES OF CHOU\n Section I. Decade of Ch\u2018ing Miao\n I\n \n The Ch\u2018ing Miao; narrative. Celebrating the reverential manner in which a sacrifice to King W\u00ean was performed, and further praising him.\n \n Solemn and pure the ancestral temple stands.\n \u00a0\u00a0The princes aiding in the service move\n With reverent harmony. The numerous bands\n \u00a0\u00a0Of officers their rapt devotion prove.\n All these the virtues of King W\u00ean pursue;\n \u00a0\u00a0And while they think of him on high in heaven,\n With grace and dignity they haste to do\n \u00a0\u00a0The duties to them in his temple given.\n Glory and honor follow W\u00ean's great name,\n \u00a0\u00a0And ne\u2019er will men be weary of his fame.\n \n \n \n Next: II. Wei T\u2018ien Chih Ming","title":"The Book of Poetry: Section I. Decade of Ch\u2018ing Miao: I. Ch\u2018ing Miao","type":"page"}