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思文

思文后稷。
克配彼天。
立我烝民。
莫匪爾極。
貽我來牟。
帝命率育。
無比疆爾界。
陳常于時夏。

SI WEN

O accomplished Hou-ji,
Thou didst prove thyself the correlate of Heaven;
Thou didst give grain-food to our multitudes; --
The immense gift of thy goodness.
Thou didst confer on us the wheat and the barley,
Which God appointed for the nourishment of all;
And without distinction of territory or boundary,
The rules of social duty were diffused throughout these great regions.
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