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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report of the Envoy Presenting Gifts王師封冊客主往來狀 使上贈物狀
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.
幸攀淸裁。獲成雲霧之披。續奉薄儀。誠愧芹暄之獻。庶乎無棄。廓爾有容。
Happily I have looked up to Your clear bearing, and my eyes were opened as when cloud and mist lift away. Thereupon I offer up poor gifts — it is as though I presented water-parsley or presented the sunshine, and I am truly ashamed. I pray You will not cast them away, but receive them generously.