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Text of the three libations of the Taeil offering rite at Chungju — first libation忠州大一醮禮三獻文 初獻
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.
仰察靈躔。直巽維而垂曜。適當令節。涓辛日以薦馨。幸墮眷於層霄。俯歆誠於浻酌。
Looking up, I observe the divine constellation: it is from the southeastern corner that you let your light fall. Meeting a good season just now, I have chosen a sin day and offer up fragrant victuals.
May you be pleased to send down your regard from the high heavens and bend down to partake of the sincerity we have clearly set forth.