{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/sbe03/sbe03071.htm","path":"cfu/sbe03/sbe03071.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/sbe03071.htm","text":"According to the Preface, there is an announcement here of the realization of complete peace throughout the kingdom, and some of the old critics refer the ode to a sacrifice to king W\u0103n by the duke of K\u00e2u, when he had completed the statutes for the new dynasty. But there is nothing to authorize a more definite argument of the contents than I have given.\nThe ordinances of Heaven,--How deep are they and unintermitting! And oh! how illustrious Was the singleness of the virtue of king W\u0103n 3!\nHow does he (now) show his kindness? We will receive it, Striving to be in accord with him, our}\nking W\u0103n; And may his remotest descendant be abundantly the same!\n314:3 See what \u021cze-sze says on these four lines in the Doctrine of the Mean, XXVI, par. 10.","title":"SBE 3: Shih King: Odes of the Temple and the Altar: II. The Sacrificial Odes of K\u00e2u: Ode 2. The Wei Thien Kih Ming","type":"page"}