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《緜 - Mian》

 English translation: James Legge [?]
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1 緜:
緜緜瓜瓞。
民之初生、自土沮漆。
古公亶父、陶复陶穴、未有家室。
Mian:
In long trains ever increasing grow the gourds.
When [our] people first sprang,
From the country about the Ju and the Qi,
The ancient duke Dan-fu,
Made for them kiln-like huts and caves,
Ere they had yet any houses.

2 緜:
古公亶父、来朝走马。
率西水浒、至于岐下。
爰及姜女、聿来胥宇。
Mian:
The ancient duke Dan-fu,
Came in the morning, galloping his horses,
Along the banks of the western rivers,
To the foot of [mount] Qi;
And there, he and the lady Jiang,
Came, and together looked out for a site on which to settle.

3 緜:
周原膴膴、菫茶如饴。
爰始爰谋、爰契我龟。
曰止曰时、筑室于兹。
Mian:
The plain of Zhou looked beautiful and rich,
With its violets and sowthistles [sweet] as dumplings.
There he began with consulting [his followers];
There he singed the tortoise-shell, [and divined].
The responses were - there to stay, and then;
And they proceeded there to build their houses.

4 緜:
乃慰乃止、乃左乃右、乃疆乃理、乃宣乃亩、自西徂东、周爰执事。
Mian:
He encouraged the people and settled them;
Here on the left, there on the right.
He divided the ground into larger tracts and smaller portions;
He dug the ditches; he defined the acres;
From the west to the east,
There was nothing which he did not take in hand.

5 緜:
乃召司空、乃召司徒、俾立室家。
其绳则直、缩版以载、作庙翼翼。
Mian:
He called his superintendent of works;
He called his minister of instruction;
And charged them with the building of the houses.
With the line they made everything straight;
They bound the frame-boards tight, so that they should rise regularly.
Uprose the ancestral temple in its solemn grandeur.

6 緜:
救之陾陾、度之薨薨、筑之登登、削屡冯冯、百堵皆兴、鼛鼓弗胜。
Mian:
Crowds brought the earth in baskets
They threw it with shouts into the frames;
They beat it with responsive blows;
They pared the walls repeatedly, and they sounded strong.
Five thousand cubits of them arose together,
So that the roll of the great drum did not overpower [the noise of the builders].

7 緜:
乃立臯门、臯门有伉。
乃立应门、应门将将。
乃立冢土、戎丑攸行。
Mian:
They set up the gate of the enceinte;
And the gate of the enceinte stood high.
They set up the court gate;
And the court gate stood grand.
They reared the great altar [to the Spirits of the land],
From which all great movements should proceed.

8 緜:
肆不殄厥愠、亦不陨厥问。
柞棫拔矣、行道兑矣。
混夷駾矣、维其喙矣。
Mian:
Thus though he could nto prevent the rage [of his foes],
He did not let fall his own fame.
The oaks and the Yu were [gradually] thinned,
And roads for travelling were opened.
The hordes of the Hun disappeared,
Startled and panting.

9 緜:
虞芮质厥成、文王蹶厥生。
予曰有疏附、予曰有先后、予曰有奔奏、予曰有御侮。
Mian:
[The chiefs of] Yu and Rui were brought to an agreement,
By king Wen's stimulating their natural virtue.
Then, I may say, some came to him, previously not knowing him;
And some, drawn the last by the first;
And some, drawn by his rapid success;
Ans some, by his defence [of the weak] from insult.

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