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Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade. Part 04

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Ode 5, Stanza 1. The
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In Praise Of Some King, Whose Virtue Secured To Him The Favour Of Heaven.

Perhaps the response of the feasted personators of the ancestors.

Of our admirable, amiable sovereign Most illustrious is the excellent virtue. He orders rightly the people, orders rightly the officers, And receives his dignity from Heaven, Which protects and helps him, and (confirms) his appointment, By repeated acts of renewal from heaven.
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