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Jiao Rite Petition for Repaying a Vow on Behalf of the Crown Prince (東宮), Held at the Daoist Hall (道殿) — First Cup道殿行爲東宮還願醮禮文 初獻

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 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.

爲德最盛。潛施善貸之私。無恩不酬。祗奉克禋之禮。庶臨楡席。俯享蘭羞。

Your virtue being most abundant, you quietly bestow the grace of lending help well; and since there is no kindness that may go unrepaid, I reverently take up and offer the rite of a pure sacrifice.

I pray that you may come to the elmwood seat and bend down to partake of these orchid-like offerings.