{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop314.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop314.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop314.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u00a0\u00a0\"Ye people,\" thus to King-ch\u2018u\u2019s hosts he said,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"My kingdom's southern part your home have made.\n \u00a0\u00a0Of old, when the successful Tang bore sway,\n \u00a0\u00a0The states made haste their offerings to pay.\n \u00a0\u00a0The distant Ch'iang of Ti in homage came;\n \u00a0\u00a0No chief then dared deny our sovereign claim.\n \u00a0\u00a0Shall ye, who dwell much nearer than the Ch\u2018iang,\n Transgress what long has been th\u2019 unvaried rule of Shang?\n3\u00a0\u00a0\"\u2019Twas Heaven assigned to all the states their bounds;\n \u00a0\u00a0But where within the sphere of Y\u00fc's grand rounds\n \u00a0\u00a0Their capitals were placed, then every year,\n \u00a0\u00a0As business called, their princes did appear\n \u00a0\u00a0Before our king, and to him humbly said,\n \u00a0\u00a0'Prepare not us to punish or upbraid,\n For we the due regard to husbandry have paid.'\" p. 487\n4\u00a0\u00a0When Heaven's high glance this lower world surveys,\n \u00a0\u00a0Attention to the people first it pays.\n \u00a0\u00a0Aware of this, our king impartial was.\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor punished so as justice to o\u2019erpass.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2019Gainst idleness he took precaution sure;\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0So o\u2019er the states his rule did firm endure,\n And all his life he made his happiness secure.\n5\u00a0\u00a0Well ordered was his capital, and grand,\n \u00a0\u00a0And served as model good to all the land.\n \u00a0\u00a0Men recognized his energy as great;\n \u00a0\u00a0His glorious fame rang loud through every state.\n \u00a0\u00a0Long was his life, and tranquil was his end;\n He blesses and protects us who from him descend.\n6\u00a0\u00a0Eager we climbed the King hill near at hand,\n \u00a0\u00a0Where round and straight the pine and cypress stand.\n \u00a0\u00a0We felled these to the ground, and hither brought,\n \u00a0\u00a0And, reverent, hewed them to the shape we sought.\n \u00a0\u00a0Long from the wall project the beams of pine,\n \u00a0\u00a0And numerous rise the pillars, large and fine;\u2014\n So have we built this house for Wu-ting's peaceful shrine.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book III. The Sacrificial Odes of Shang: V. Yin Wu","type":"page"}