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Jiao Rite Petition to the Three Pure Ones (三淸), Praying Away the Portent of the Stars — First Cup星變祈禳三淸醮禮文 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.
察珠躔之錯度。慄慄若隕于深。叩玉境以翹誡。洋洋如在其上。虔陳馨祀。佇枉靈遊。
Observing that the places of the bead-like stars have departed from their measures, I tremble as though about to fall into a deep place; and as I knock at the Jade Realm (玉境) and pray with reverence, it is as though you were brimmingly present above.
With all sincerity I set out a fragrant sacrifice and wait for your numinous wandering to bend down and come.