1. Oh! the praise of King Wen Shall forever endure. For the people he sought, How their rest to make sure. And his work he beheld Made complete and secure; And our Wen was a sovereign true!

2. 'Twas the gift of high heaven That the throne did bestow. What success Wen achieved, When great Chung was laid low! Feng he called it, and moved There, his grand state to show; And our Wen was a sovereign true!

3. He repaired its old walls, And the old moat he cleared. As his sires had oft done, So his new seat he reared. Not in haste did he build, And the son more appeared; And our prince was a sovereign true!

4. Oh! how brightly those walls Did his merit display! From all quarters they came, And would not be said nay. For to Feng they repaired, Their true homage to pay; And our prince was a sovereign true!

5. East from Feng flowed the stream That the same name did bear. 'Twas the work of Great Yu Made the water flow there. And to Feng the states came, Wu their king to declare; And our king was a sovereign true!

6. Then to Hao Wu removed, And the pool-circled hall There he built, and received The submission of all. East, west, north, and south, Him their monarch they call; And our king was a sovereign true!

7. Having thought of the site, By the shell Wu divined. As the shell answer gave, So the site was assigned. Thus King Wu dwelt in Hao, Where his city we find; And our Wu was a sovereign true!

8. Where the Feng water flows, Is the white millet grown. In the men Wu employed How his merit was shown! To his sons he would leave His wise plans and his throne; And our Wu was a sovereign true!

About this reader

What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

Licensing

The application source is AGPL-3.0. Generated text downloads and their structured arrangement are CC BY-SA 4.0; the underlying historic source texts are treated as public-domain inputs. The corpus metadata therefore describes the distributed arrangement with its CC BY-SA license rather than the Public Domain Mark.

Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

Deep Linking

Every chapter and verse has a permanent URL. Chapter links follow the pattern /scripture/{work}/{book}-{chapter} (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1 for Genesis 1). Verse links append the verse number (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1:26 for Genesis 1:26). These URLs can be shared, bookmarked, or cited directly.

Accessibility

Scripture supports keyboard navigation throughout: Tab moves between controls, Enter activates verse actions, and arrow keys navigate chapters. The reading pane has a skip-to-content link. All overlays (search, concordance) are focus-trapped ARIA dialogs. Dynamic content regions use aria-live for screen reader announcements. Light and dark themes are available through the theme toggle. Verse numbers are visible to assistive technology. No flashing content or motion hazards.

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