{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop289.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop289.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop289.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\nStand the music frames around,\n On whose posts rich plumes abound,\n While their face boards, edged like teeth,\n Show the drums that hang beneath.\n Sounding stones and hand drums there\n In the concert part shall bear.\n See the chu to signalize\n When the music shall arise;\n And the y\u00fc, whose harsher note\n Hushes instrument and throat.\nWhen the duke has thus prepared,\n Soon the various notes are heard.\n Organ's swell and flutes\u2019 soft voice\n Make the listening ears rejoice.\nSweet the harmony of sound,\n Holding all in rapture bound!\n When such music shall be made,\n Then our sires for whom \u2018tis played,\n And the visitors who come,\n Welcomed to this sacred home,\n Shall desire it to last long,\n Thrilled with the melodious song.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Section II. The Decade of Ch\u2018\u00ean Kung: V. Yu Ku","type":"page"}