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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report Submitted by the Deputy Envoy, as Above王師封冊客主往來狀 副使行同前狀
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.
久聆禪韻。猶傾髮籍之心。叨奉王言。將展膝行之禮。努加鞭策。忙卽門扃。
Long have I heard the high resounding of the Meditation Master, and still my heart leans toward shaving my head and setting my name among those at Your gate. Presumptuously bearing the royal word, I would unfold the rite of going forward upon my knees. I shall lay on the whip with all my strength and come in haste before Your gate.