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Invocation Announcing the Reason to the Grand Shrine (大廟) and Gyeongnyeong Hall (景靈殿) upon the Repair of Galleung (簡陵)簡陵修理次大廟景靈殿告事由祝

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 · 42 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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.

窈窕賢妃。埋玉僅移於百歲。穿窬小盜。摸金有及於九泉。玆危懼之交懷。圖繕完而復舊。先陳信薦。仰叩聦聞。

Barely a hundred years have passed since the fair and worthy queen was buried like jade, and the tomb-robbing of petty thieves who bore through walls has reached even into the world below.

At this, peril and dread cross in my heart, and I plan to repair and make it whole and restore it as it was. First we set out sincere offerings and knock, looking up, at your bright hearing.