Originating belongs to those

Who are in the higher position

While details of work to those

Who are in the lower regions.

A finally compendious decision

Belongs to one who is in charge

To one's many subordinates. Hurrah!

The three cavalries' storming attempt

With their five sorts of weapon is but

A trifling quality of force to be exploited

In the action of a massive nuclear carnage.

The notes of bells and drums and the displays

Of gongs' tones are not such minutiae in music

While the various grades of the ritual garments

Are the most important manifestations of woe.

These important adjuncts require operations

Of the excited spirit and employment of arts

That make one's mind be right and mobile

In order to bring them to the common sense.

The point is that men of old had them in all,

But they didn't give them the first place, and

That what constituted the core of their morals

Before they've reached the recent state of things.