{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/sbe03/sbe03131.htm","path":"cfu/sbe03/sbe03131.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/sbe03131.htm","text":"Look at the foot of the Han 3, How abundantly grow the hazel and arrow-thorn 4. Easy and self-possessed was our prince, In his pursuit of dignity (still) easy and self-possessed.\nMassive is that libation-cup of jade, With the\nyellow liquid sparkling in it 1. Easy and self-possessed was our prince, The fit recipient of blessing and dignity.\nThe hawk flies up to heaven, The fishes leap in the deep 2. Easy and self-possessed was our prince:--Did he not exert an influence on men?\nHis clear spirits were in the vessels; His red bull was ready 3;--To offer, to sacrifice, To increase his bright happiness.\nThick grow the oaks and the buckthorn, Which the people use for fuel 4. Easy and self-possessed was our prince, Cheered and encouraged by the spirits 4.\nLuxuriant are the dolichos and other creepers, Clinging to the branches and stems. Easy and self-possessed was our prince, Seeking for happiness by no crooked ways.\n386:3 Where mount Han was cannot now be determined.\n386:4 As the foot of the hill was favourable to vegetable growth, so were king W\u0103n's natural qualities to his distinction and advancement.\n387:1 As a cup of such quality was the proper receptacle for the yellow, herb-flavoured spirits, so was the character of W\u0103n such that all blessing must accrue to him.\n387:2 It is the nature of the hawk to fly and of fishes to swim, and so there went out an influence from W\u0103n unconsciously to himself.\n387:3 Red, we have seen, was the proper colour for victims in the ancestral temple of K\u00e2u.\n387:4 As it was natural for the people to take the wood and use it, so it was natural for the spirits of his ancestors, and spiritual beings generally, to bless king W\u0103n.","title":"SBE 3: Shih King: Major Odes, First Decade: Ode 5. The Han L\u00fb","type":"page"}