Report, on behalf of the magistrate of Neungseong, congratulating the Prefect of Naju on taking up office爲陵城倅賀羅州大守到官狀
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 89 Chinese characters · reading time 1.1 min
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.
Sharing the cares of the lord of ten thousand chariots, you become a mother to the people; taking charge of the command of one region, you are heaven to us.
I humbly consider that Your Excellency of such-and-such office received the edict at the nine gates and has taken sole charge of a walled town of a hundred li. You have sent down rain at Yingchuan (潁川), so it would do no harm for you to become the long rain of Fu Yue (傅說); you have cast the shade of a mountain-ash over a southern district, so you will surely open the house of Gongsun Hong (公孫弘). You have bent yourself for a while to a prefectural tally, but you ought rightly to climb the chancellor's steps.
I, so-and-so, of paltry and base stuff, am covered by your benevolent shade. Considering myself, my administration is clumsy and I am blind to what is urgent and what may wait; so I look up to the higher office and entrust my death and life to your authority and nurture.