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Jiao Rite Petition for the Natal Destiny (本命) — First Cup本命醮禮文 初獻
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.
序紀仲炎。日丁元命。泂酌寔陳於信薦。嬰香可引於眞遊。仰冀冲虛。賜歆芬苾。
The season marks the middle month of summer, and the day falls on the day of my natal destiny. Water drawn from afar is truly set out as a sincere offering, and incense is circled about, fit to draw your true wandering here.
Looking up, I pray that you who are hidden and empty may partake of this fragrance.