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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) — Second Cup道殿行爲東宮還願醮禮文 亞獻文

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 · 40 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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.

愛鐘儲貳。夙陳祈叩之誠。澤降杳冥。果借提撕之賜。肆尋信誓。爰蕆精禋。冀歆悃愊之衷。申錫綏將之慶。

Love being gathered upon the Crown Prince, we once set out the sincerity of our prayer; and bounty came down from the far distance, so that we did indeed borrow your guiding descent.

Therefore, seeking out what we vowed in trust, we have here prepared a pure sacrifice. I pray that you partake of this earnest inmost heart and send down again the blessing of your peaceful help.