The Book of Poetry: Section II. The Decade of Ch‘&e...
The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]
The thryssa and the yellow jaws,
And sturgeons, large and lank, are there,
Which we, observant of the laws,
Offer in sacrifice, with prayer,
That Chou may hold its brightening way,
Nor o’er its fortunes come decay.