The Music-Lesson of Confucius

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Excerpt from The Music-Lesson of Confucius: And Other Poems The Music-Lesson of Confucius. The music-lesson of Koung-tseu the wise, Known as Confucius in the western world. Of all the sages of the Flowery Land None knew so well as great Confucius The ancient rites, and when his mother died, Three years he mourned alone beside her tomb As the Old Custom bade, nor did he miss A single detail of the dark old forms Required of the bereaved, for he had made Himself a model for all living men: A mirror and a pattern of the Past. Now when the years of mourning with their rites Were at an end, Confucius came forth And wandered as of old with other men, Giving his counsel unto many kings, But still the hand of grief was on his heart, And his dark hue set forth his darkened hours. To drive away these sorrows from his soul, Remembering that music had been made A moral motive in the golden books Of wisdom by the sacred ancestors, He played upon the Kin - the curious lute Invented by Fou-Hi in days of old, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.