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Jiao Rite Petition to the Three Pure Ones (三淸), Praying Away the Portent of the Stars — Preliminary Invocation星變祈禳三淸醮禮文 先告祝
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.
雲間鸞鶴馭。不妨暫降於塵寰。地上蟣蝨臣。曷可敷聞於仙陛。庶幾贊導。毋至稽遲。
The chariot of luan birds (鸞) and cranes among the clouds may descend a while to this dusty world without hindrance; but how can a servant on the earth, no better than a louse or its egg, make his report at the immortals' steps?
I pray that you help and guide us, so that it does not come late.