{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop284.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop284.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop284.htm","text":"O thou, accomplished, great Hou-chi,\n \u00a0\u00a0To thee alone \u2019twas given\n To be, by what we trace to thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0The correlate of Heaven.\n On all who dwell within our land\n \u00a0\u00a0Grain food didst thou bestow. \np. 441\n \u2019Tis to thy wonder-working hand\n \u00a0\u00a0This gracious boon we owe.\n God had the wheat and barley meant\n \u00a0\u00a0To nourish all mankind.\n None would have fathomed His intent,\n \u00a0\u00a0But for thy guiding mind.\n Man's social duties thou didst show\n \u00a0\u00a0To every tribe and state.\n From thee the polished manners flow\n \u00a0\u00a0That stamp our land \"The Great.\"","title":"The Book of Poetry: Section I. Decade of Ch\u2018ing Miao: X. Ss\u016d W\u00ean","type":"page"}