{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop286.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop286.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop286.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\nII\nThe I Hsi; narrative. Instructions to the officers of husbandry:\u2014probably like the preceding ode, after a sacrifice to God for a good year.\nO yes! the spirit of King Ch\u2018\u00eang, When we inquired of him, drew nigh, And clearly told us when to bring The gifts that now before him lie. Lead forth your men, with energy O\u2019er their own fields to sow the grain, p. 443 Those, in each square of thirty li, Ten thousand families can maintain.\nNow let the plows turn up the soil, The men attending, pair by pair. The harvest will repay their toil;\u2014 The bounteous produce all shall share.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Section II. The Decade of Ch\u2018\u00ean Kung: II. I Hsi","type":"page"}