其辞。

    呜呼圣皇及圣相， 相与烜赫流淳熙。

    公之斯文不示后， 曷与三五相攀追？

    愿书万本诵万过， 口角流沫右手胝；

    传之七十有二代， 以为封禅玉检明堂基。

    Seven-cer-ancient-verse

    Li Shangyin

    t

    times ial as a god

    And migo the Emperors Xuan and Xi.

    ook an oato reassert the empire,

    And tribute was brougo ers.

    estern y years  country,

    olves becoming lynxes, lynxes becoming bears.

    tains and rivers, rising from the plains,

    it the Sun.

    But the name of Du,

    s against assassination,

    ate, and accepted chief command,

    he Ruler of heaven.

    Generals Suo, u, Gu, and tong became his paws and claws;

    Civil and military experts brougingbrushes,

    And e.

    A y ting like lions and tigers,

    Captured t cains for temple.

    So complete a victory ;

    And t;to you, Du, s honour,

    And your secretary, Yu, se a record of it.quot;

    and danced, saying:

    quot;orical ings on stone and metal are my especial art;

    And, since I kno brusers,

    My duty in tance is more than merely official,

    And I s fault if I modestly declined.quot;

    times.

    And Yu retired and fasted and, in a narrow workroom,

    brush drops of rain,

    Cers like the Canons of Yao and Xun,

    And a style as in t poems Qingmiao and Shengmin.

    And soon tion was ready, on a s of paper.

    In t, airs.

    ;I, unhy,

    o record t, for a monument.quot;

    tablet y feet ers large as