When the sea does not reject the streams

That flow into it in their eastward course,

We have the perfect example of greatness.

The cultivated man embraces in his regard

Both Heaven and Earth; his beneficence

Extends to all under the blue sky; at that,

We have no clue from whom this comes.

So, though when some living may have

No high-ranking status, and when

Some dead are not so honorary epithet,

Though the reality of what they truly are

May not be properly acknowledged

And their names are not duly established,

We have in them what is fairly regarded

As 'the cultivated persons' by definition.