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Invocation as Above, upon the Repair of Heolleung (憲陵)憲陵修理同前祭祝
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.
國風寢薄。漸無禮法之隄防。盜計得行。有及祖宗之陵墓。方臨繕理。敢告因由。
The customs of the land have grown thin by degrees and the embankments of rite and law have gradually vanished, so that the schemes of thieves are carried out and have reached even the tombs of our ancestral rulers.
Now, as we come to the repair and ordering of it, we dare announce the reason.