Jiao Rite Petition for Repaying a Vow on Behalf of the Crown Prince (東宮), Held at the Daoist Hall (道殿) — Third Cup, Blue Text (靑詞)道殿行爲東宮還願醮禮文 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 · 108 Chinese characters · reading time 1.1 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.
The divine powers are the utmost distillation of the Way, and in their response there is nothing partial; between father and son there is an inborn constancy, and their feeling is deep.
Once I knocked at the far-off stillness of the lofty True One and looked up in prayer for the Crown Prince's well-being; and where a hidden shade was added, the harmonious air did indeed gather and keep him well. The words I vowed while keeping the fast still stand — how could I dare deceive the exceeding brightness of your divine scrutiny?
So I have looked to the immortals' observances and set out the business of the jiao rite. Standing long toward the cloud steps, I think of your whirlwind chariot arriving and drawing near.
Prostrate, I pray that you bend down to hear this small sincerity and bend still further to grant unseen help. Let the beauty of Heaven arrive the more, sending down every blessing without end; and let the Crown Prince's virtue shine the brighter, so that all living beings everywhere are upheld by it.
Interlinear notes 1
和氣 — the base text has 和倪, taken as an error for 和氣. 和氣 occurs in fifteen places in the base text, but 和倪 only here. ― Translator