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Invocation as Above, upon the Repair of Sureung (壽陵)壽陵修理次同前祭祝
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.
人之無良。値寢園之墮圮。我是用嘆。興土作以繕完。薦此馨嘉。佇于安妥。
Because people were not good, the tomb chamber has met with ruin. Sighing at this, I raise up earthwork to repair it and make it whole.
We offer these fragrant and beautiful offerings and wait for you to be enshrined in peace.