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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report Submitted from Afar by the Envoy of Investiture for the Third Time王師封冊客主往來狀 三度冊使上遠狀
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 32 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.
肅持玉節。嚴騶哄以遄行。淨掃金沙。喜光塵之漸邇。傾心所切。覿面粗陳。
Reverently holding the jade tally, I urge on the guides and go forward in haste. The courtyard of golden sand has been swept clean, and I rejoice that the shining traces draw gradually near. My heart leans toward You in earnest; when I have seen Your face I shall tell You in outline.