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44  said, 'Yes, but do you go (and undertake the duties). Effect a harmony (in all the departments).'

The  said, 'Who can superintend, as the nature of the charge requires, the grass and trees, with the birds and beasts on my hills and in my marshes?' All (in the court) replied, 'Is there not Yî ?' The   said, 'Yes. Ho! Yî, do you be my Forester.' Yî did obeisance with his head to the ground, and wished to decline in favour of Zhū, Hû, Hsiung, or Pî. The  said, 'Yes, but do you go (and undertake the duties). You must manage them harmoniously.'

The  said, 'Ho! (President of the) Four Mountains, is there any one able to direct my three (religious) ceremonies ?' All (in the court) answered, 'Is there not Po-î ?' The  said, 'Yes. Ho! Po, you must be the Arranger in the Ancestral Temple. Morning and night be reverent. Be upright, be pure.' Po did obeisance with his head to the ground, and wished to decline in favour of Khwei or Lung. The  said, 'Yes, but do you go (and undertake the duties). Be reverential!'*

The  said, 'Khwei, I appoint you to be Director of Music, and to teach our sons, so that the straightforward shall yet be mild; the gentle, dignified; the strong, not tyrannical; and the impetuous,