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Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 19

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Ode 2. The Wei Thien
\"K"Ih Ming.

Celebrating The Virtue Of King Wn As Comparable To That Of Heaven, And Looking To Him For Blessing In The Future.

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 Wn by the duke of "K"u, 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.

The ordinances of Heaven,--How deep are they and unintermitting! And oh! how illustrious Was the singleness of the virtue of king Wn 3!

How does he (now) show his kindness? We will receive it, Striving to be in accord with him, our}

p. 315

king Wn; And may his remotest descendant be abundantly the same!

Footnotes

314:3
See what ze-sze says on these four lines in the Doctrine of the Mean, XXVI, par. 10.
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