{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/sbe03/sbe03100.htm","path":"cfu/sbe03/sbe03100.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/sbe03100.htm","text":"In the eighth piece of the first decade we have an ode akin to this, relating a tentative progress of king W\u00fb, to test the acceptance of his sovereignty. This is of a later date, and should be referred, probably, to the reign of king Kh\u0103ng, when the dynasty was fully acknowledged. Some critics, however, make it, like the three preceding, a portion of what was sung at the W\u00fb dance.\nOh! great now is K\u00e2u. We ascend the high hills, Both those that are long and narrow, and the lofty mountains. Yes, and (we travel) along the regulated Ho, All under the sky, Assembling those who now respond to me. Thus it is that the appointment belongs to K\u00e2u.","title":"SBE 3: Shih King: Odes of the Temple and the Altar: II. T...","type":"page"}