{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop307.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop307.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop307.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2How sleek and strong, how sleek and strong,\n Those stallion teams that dash along!\n Early and late their masters all\n Are present in the palace hall,\n And with the duke a-drinking fall.\n As flock of egrets, circling round\n Aloft, or wheeling \u2019bove the ground,\n Are they. Anon the drums resound;\n Having well drunk, they homeward move;\n Pure is the mutual joy they prove.\n3How sleek and strong, how sleek and strong,\n Those iron grays that dash along!\n Early and late, their masters all\n Are present in the palace hall,\n And with the duke a-feasting fall.\n At last their prayer they thus express:\u2014\n \"May fruitful years our marquis bless!\n His goodness may he still maintain,\n And leave to sons in lengthening chain!\"\n May such rejoicing long remain!","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book II. The Praise Odes of Lu: II. Yu Pi","type":"page"}