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Jiao Rite Petition to the Three Pure Ones (三淸), Praying Away the Portent of the Stars — Second Cup星變祈禳三淸醮禮文 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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 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.

感變而懼。寔深臨谷之心。無安惟危。敢瀝籲天之懇。庶矜誠告。永杜災萌。

Stirred by this portent I am afraid, and the feeling of standing at the edge of a ravine runs deep indeed; there is no ease but only peril, and so I dare pour out the earnestness of one crying to Heaven.

I pray that you pity this sincere declaration and block the sprouts of calamity for good.