1. Fair is the pool, half-circling round The college of our land. The plants of cress that there abound We pluck with eager hand. To it our prince of Lu draws nigh; We see his dragon banner fly, Free waving in the wind. And as he moves, his horses' bells Tinkle harmonious, and fast swells The crowd that comes behind.

2. Fair is the pool, half-circling round The college of our land. The pondweed plants that there abound We pluck with eager hand. Arrived is now our prince of Lu, With team of steeds that grandly show,— Steeds, each of highest worth. His fame is great. With winning smile. And blandest look, no haste the while, His lessons he gives forth.

3. Fair is the pool, half-circling round The college of our land. The mallow plants that there abound We pluck with eager hand. The college now our prince contains. Joyous, the festive cup he drains,— The cup of spirits good. His be the strength that knows not age! His be the noble course and sage, By which men are subdued!

4. Our prince of Lu has virtue rare; His reverence we see. His every step he guards with care; The people's mold is he. In peace and war his powers are proved, His mighty sires are deeply moved;— O'er him with love they bend. Through filial duty ever paid, And without farther effort made, Blessings on him descend.

5. Our prince of Lu has wisdom great; His virtue brighter grows. This college, glory of the state, To him its beauty owes. The tribes of Huai will own his sway; His tiger chiefs down here will lay The ears cut from their foes. His questioners, like Kao Yao wise, Will here rehearse their enterprise, And captive kerns expose.

6. His numerous officers, all true, And of a virtuous mind, Will haste with martial zeal to do The part to them assigned;— Those tribes from south and east. expel, Then back their triumphs come to tell, And here themselves report. The duke no judge's help will need, As calm and truthful here they plead Their claims before his court.

7. They draw their bows, with bone made strong. How whiz the arrows fleet! Their cars of war dash swift along, Eager the foe to meet. Drivers and footmen weary not, Till o'er the tribes of Huai is got A victory entire. Your plans, O prince, be firm and true! So shall you all those tribes subdue, And quench rebellion's fire.

8. On wing they come, those owls, and rest The college trees among. Our mulberry fruits they eat with zest, Grown birds of sweetest song So shall the Huai tribes change their minds,. And bring their tribute in all kinds Of produce rich and rare;— The ivory tusks, the tortoise big, The metals from their mines they dig;— Their fealty to declare.

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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