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Jiao Rite Petition for Sangwon (上元) — Second Cup上元醮禮文 亞獻文
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.
佑下無私。孰知眞宰。朝元紀候。祗展明禋。冀紆歆格之私。僉錫熾昌之慶。
In your helping of those below there is nothing partial — who can know the true sovereign of it? At the season when the host of immortals holds court, we reverently spread out a bright sacrifice.
I pray that you bend to us the grace of partaking and arriving, and send down in full the blessings of abundance and flourishing.