Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shih/Odes of the Temple and the Altar/The Sacrificial Odes of Kâu/Decade 3/Ode 10

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Ode 10. The Lâi.

Celebrating the praise of king Wăn.

This is the only account of the piece that can be given from itself. The Zo-Kwan, however, refers it to the dance of king Wû; and the Preface says it contains the words with which Wû accompanied his grant of fiefs and appanages in the ancestral temple to his principal followers.

King Wăn laboured earnestly:—
Right is it we should have received (the kingdom).
We will diffuse (his virtue), ever cherishing the thought of ​him;
Henceforth we will seek only the settlement (of the kingdom).
It was he through whom came the appointment of Kâu.
Oh! let us ever cherish the thought of him.

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