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Presentation Address and Recited Verse of the Music Bureau on Welcoming the Royal Carriage at the House of the Marquis of Jingang — Recited Verse晉康侯邸迎聖駕次。敎坊致語口號。 口號
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 19 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.
朱門望幸日爲年。井鉞參旗下九仙。萬戶國侯迎道左。八鑾宸駕駐街前。路塡珠疑無地。風送笙簫認自天。海變桑田金母老。吾皇享壽更三千。
At the red gate we awaited the royal progress, each day as long as a year, and the Well Star (井星), the axe-banner and the Three Flags (參旗) send down nine immortals. The lord of a land of ten thousand households greets him to the left of the road, and the royal carriage with its eight bells halts before the street. Pearls fill the road until it seems there is no ground, and the pipes and flutes borne on the wind one knows have come from Heaven. Till the sea turns to mulberry fields and the Queen Mother of the West grows old, our sovereign shall enjoy yet three thousand years of life.