{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop291.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop291.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop291.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n\"This noble bull I bring to thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0And these assist me in the rite.\n Father, august and great, on me,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy filial son, pour down thy light!\n\"All-sagely didst thou play the man,\n \u00a0\u00a0Alike in peace and war a king.\n Heaven rested in thee, O great W\u00ean,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who to thy sons still good dost bring.\n\"The eyebrows of long life to me,\n \u00a0\u00a0Great source of comfort, thou hast given.\n Thou mak\u2019st me great, for \u2018tis through thee\n \u00a0\u00a0Come all the other gifts of Heaven.\n\"O thou, my meritorious sire,\n \u00a0\u00a0And thou in whose fond breast I lay,\n With power and grace your son inspire\n \u00a0\u00a0His reverent sacrifice to pay.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Section II. The Decade of Ch\u2018\u00ean Kung: VII. Yung","type":"page"}