A Memorial Submitted to the Emperor by the Hand of the Returning Mongol Envoy蒙古國使齎廻。上皇帝表。

And so forth. Your starlike envoys are just now coming and the writings of Heaven arrive one upon another; bending my body I receive your command, and gladness and fear hang together in my heart.

I consider respectfully that Your Imperial Majesty was born with the stuff of an outstanding sage and has received the mandate of the broad heavens. Holding the pivot you have come to the utmost seat, and stand alone exalted among the lords of ten thousand chariots; and when you shake out your majesty like a tiger, there is not one state that does not submit. You have sent down your bright edict in its greatness and spread it everywhere, even to the out-of-the-way places; our letters differing from yours, we understood it only by leaning upon interpreters. How sublime! Your divine army has none to withstand it, and the houses of the people have been greatly made one, as though swept together.

I prostrate myself and consider that your servant has from early on borne your imperial divine power upon his head and carefully kept the duty of a subject. Being steeped anew in the instruction sent down from Heaven, my sincerity in turning toward the sun has grown twice as deep. Only, I dwell shut in at a corner of the sea a thousand li away, and moreover it is hard to leave the post of guarding this hedge empty for even a day. And if I were to leave my borders and cross mountains and streams into the far distance, I fear lest I tread upon some peril and so look up and trouble the heart that cares and pities. My fear only grows, and my heart that looks up in longing only grows the more earnest. And so forth.