Text for the Taeil offering rite — third libation, the blue text太一醮禮文 三獻靑詞
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 · 100 Chinese characters · reading time 1 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 40 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.
You have no fixed place in your changing, and yet you always rescue all things well; and good and ill fortune never go awry, for they come from men alone. If in truth one bends the sincerity of prayer, one straightway receives the sending down of your pity.
By my excess in affairs I have called down the omen of fault. Meeting the time when the cold should be at its height, it is always warmth that becomes calamity; still more, the mist is blocked thick through whole mornings, and at times the long rains seep down for days together.
Let the yin and the yang be ever compliant, so that there be no calamity of winter going awry and summer lying prostrate; and let auspicious omens come together, so that there be a sending down in which heaven descends and earth ascends.