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Presentation Address, Recited Verse and Joined-Verse Tune of the Music Bureau at the Investiture Banquet for the Imperial Son and the Princess — Recited Verse皇子公主封冊宴禮。敎坊致語口號句合曲。翰林奏呈。 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.
九霄優澤浥金枝。留宴皇華講縟儀。風颺綵天紅浪皺。日勻繒嶺絳雲披。喜濃仙醞春先蕩。恩重宣花露易滋。宮掖讙聲騰四海。皇家正築太平基。
The rich favour of the ninth heaven moistens the golden branch, and the banquet is held on while the shining rite of the imperial house is rehearsed. The wind sends the painted sky flying, and the red waves crease; the sun shines evenly on the hills of silk, and the crimson clouds part. Joy being thick, spring stirs first in the immortals' wine; the bounty being weighty, the dew swells easily on the flowers bestowed. The glad sound of the palace rises to the four seas, and the imperial house is even now laying the foundation of the great peace.