ment, And in accordance with it smote the great Shang.
The troops of Yin-shang Were collected like a forest, And marshalled in the wilderness of Mû. We rose (to the crisis); 'God is with you,' (said Shang-fû to the king), 'Have no doubts in your heart[1].'
The wilderness of Mû spread out extensive; Bright shone the chariots of sandal; The teams of bays, black-maned and white-bellied, galloped along; The Grand-Master Shang-fû Was like an eagle on the wing, Assisting king Wû, Who at one onset smote the great Shang. That morning's encounter was followed by a clear, bright (day).
Ode 3. The Mien.
Small beginnings and subsequent growth of the House of Kâu in Kâu. Its removal from Pin under Than-fû, with its first settlement in Kâu, with the place then given to the building of the ancestral temple, and the altar to the spirits of the land. Consolidation of its fortunes by king Wăn.
'The ancient duke Than-fû' was the grandfather of king Wăn, and was canonized by the duke of Kâu as 'king Thâi.' As mentioned in a note on p. 316, he was the first of his family to settle in Kâu, removing there from Pin, the site of their earlier settlement, 'the country about the Khü and the Khî.'
In long trains ever increasing grow the gourds[2]. When (our) people first sprang, From the country about the Khü and the Khî[3], The ancient duke
- ↑ See the account of the battle of Mû in the third Book of the fifth Part of the Shû. Shang-fû was one of Wû's principal leaders and counsellors, his 'Grand-Master Shang-fû' in the next stanza.
- ↑ As a gourd grows and extends, with a vast development of its tendrils and leaves, so had the House of Kâu increased.
- ↑ These were two rivers in the territory of Pin, which name still
