Yetgeul › Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) › Former Collection, Book 38

Sacrificial address offered to the Dragon King of Ilseon Ford (一善津)祭一善津龍王文

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 · 54 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 38 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.

云云。在天在淵。莫測飛潛之變。採澗採沼。敢陳蠲潔之禋。惟冀幽靈。曲加陰相。致令陟長橋之虹跨。蹈險如夷。得脩路之砥平。有通無礙。云云。

And so forth. Whether you are in heaven or in the pool, the changes of your flying and your sinking cannot be reckoned. Plucking in the brook and digging in the pool, we dare to spread a pure sacrifice.

I pray only that your hidden spirit bend down and help us in secret. Where we climb and a long bridge seems to hang like a rainbow, let us tread the steep as though it were level ground; and let the road we have made get the flatness of a whetstone, so that it passes through with nowhere blocked. And so forth.