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【Hymns of Zhou】\n\nDecade of Qing Miao\n\nQing Miao\n\nOh, solemn and pure is the temple,\nReverent and harmonious are the illustrious assistants.\nGreat officers, in crowds,\nMaintain the virtue of King Wen.\nResponding to and praising him in heaven,\nThey hurry about in the temple.\nVery illustrious, very gracious,\nThey are never weary of doing so!\n\nDecree of Heaven\n\nThe decree of Heaven,\nHow profound and unceasing!\nOh, how glorious\nWas the purity of the virtue of King Wen!\nHis gifts overflow upon us.\nWe will receive them,\nTrusting in the favor of King Wen,\nThat it may be relied on for ever by his descendants.\n……\n\nDecade of Chen Gong\n\nChen Gong\n\nAh! ye ministers,\nBe reverent, be careful,\nIn the discharge of your public duties.\nThe king has given you perfect rules;—\nConsult about them, and consider them.\nAh! ye assistants,\nIt is now the end of spring;\nAnd what have ye to seek for?\nHow do you proceed with your new fields?\nHow beautiful are the wheat and the barley,\nWhose bright produce we shall receive!\nThe bright and glorious God\nWill in them give us a good year.\nOrder all our men\nTo be provided with their spades and hoes;—\nAnon we shall see the sickles at work.\n\nYi Xi\n\nAlas!\nOur king,\nHas succeeded to his ancestors.\nHe leads all the husbandmen\nTo sow their various kinds of grain,\nQuickly he is pushing his work\nOver those thirty li;\nHe is engaged with you\nIn the business of your ploughing,\nWith his thousands of pairs,\nWho remove the roots and the bushes.\n……\nDecade of Min Yu Xiao Zi\n\nMin Yu Xiao Zi\n\nPity me, the little child,\nOn whom has devolved the unsettled state!\nSolitary am I and full of distress.\nOh! my great Father,\nAll thy life long,\nThou wast filial.\nThou didst think of my great grandfather,\n(Seeing him, as it were,) ascending and descending in the court.\nI, the little child,\nDay and night will be as reverent.\nOh! ye great kings,\nAs your successor, I will strive not to forget you.\n\nFang Luo\n\nWhen I think of the commencement [of my duties],\n[I follow] my illustrious father.\nAlas! how [far-reaching] was his wisdom!\nBut I am a child, and without knowledge.\nI will go on, and be helped [by him],\nContinuing and developing [his plans].\nI, the little child,\nAm not equal to the many difficulties of the family.\nI will go up and down,\nIn the court and in the house,\nAssisted by my great father,\nWho will preserve and enlighten me.\n……