1. On grandly flowed the Chiang and Han; As grandly moved our mighty force. We rested not, nor idly strayed; Straight to the Huai we held our course. Forth all our cars of war had come; Unfurled, our falcon banners flew. We rested not, nor were remiss,— Marshaled the Huai tribes to subdue.

2. Again come to the mighty stream, The troops in martial splendor shone. Of the whole land to order brought Announcement to the king had gone. Peace through the hostile region reigned;— The king's state breathed, and was at rest. The battle strife no longer raged, And quiet filled the royal breast.

3. The king had charged our Hu of Chao, Where the two streams their waters join:— "Go, open all the country up; As law requires, its lands define. I would not have those tribes distressed, But this state must their model be. Their lands, in small and larger squares, Must stand, far as the southern sea."

4. And now thus says at court the king:— "Great lord, your work is nobly done. Your ancestor was their support, When Wen and Wu received the throne. Compared with them, a child am I; You are the great duke's worthy heir. Grand has your merit now appeared; Your happiness shall be my care.

5. "This jade libation cup, and jar Of flavored spirits, now receive. For further grant of hills and streams, I've asked our cultured founder's leave. More than your sire received in Chao, These in K'e-chou to you I give." Hu, grateful, bowed his head, and said, "Great son of Heaven, forever live!"

6. He bowed, then rose, and loud proclaimed The gracious goodness of the king, And vowed he still would do his best, That through the land Chao's praise should ring. "Yes, live forever, son of Heaven, Display thy wisdom, spread thy fame! Thy civil virtues still go forth, Till all the realm shall bless thy name!"

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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