{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop296.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop296.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop296.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\nFar-reaching were, his life proclaims,\n \u00a0\u00a0The plans of his great mind;\n But how to carry out his aims\n \u00a0\u00a0I fail as yet to find. p. 452\nWhen most my powers I shall have tried\n \u00a0\u00a0To reach to his grand height,\n My steps will ever turn aside,\n \u00a0\u00a0Or to the left or right.\nI'm but a child, how can I hope\n \u00a0\u00a0Aright my seat to fill,\n Or with the many troubles cope\n \u00a0\u00a0That bode disturbance still?\nO excellent and mighty sire,\n \u00a0\u00a0To help thy son now deign!\n With thy high wisdom me inspire,\n \u00a0\u00a0And on thy throne maintain.\nTo thee, as ever near, I'll try\n \u00a0\u00a0My virtue true to prove.\n In court, in house, before my eye,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy form shall always move.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Section III. The Decade of Min Y\u00fc Hsiao Tz\u016d: II. Fang Lo","type":"page"}