Text for the offering made at the Queen's Hall in requital of a vow, presented throughout the several temples王后殿還願佛宇通行齋文
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 · 102 Chinese characters · reading time 1.1 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 39 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.
Your wondrous discernment is hard to measure, and yet you bent down and fulfilled our earnest plea for long life. This is what utmost sincerity has brought about; how should we dare neglect the rite of requital and thanks?
I consider that with this worthless body I sought the ease of the inner palace. When spring had just begun I went to the temple and turned my heart there, and now that the year is done I have seen the Queen enjoying blessing. Therefore I keep with all earnestness the pledge I brightly swore, and offer up the more my poor original faith. Reverently examining the pure rite, I set out with all strictness the seat for the burning of incense.
Looking up, I pray that by your divine response you may add the compassion that gathers and guards. Let the Queen flourish and prosper and keep a thousand years of long life and blessing, and let her also aid the sovereign in spreading his teaching to the four quarters.