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Invocation announcing the undertaking to the Great Ancestral Shrine and Gyeongnyeongjeon Hall at the repair of Gyeongneung (景陵)景陵修理次大廟及景靈殿告事祝

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 · 30 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.

有隳仙寢。甚於高廟之盜環。將起土功。採彼魯溪而薦藻。幸加歆諒。永蔑虞疑。

The royal resting place has places that have given way — graver than the theft of the jade ring from the shrine of Gaozu (高廟) of Han. About to set earthwork in motion, we gather water plants from that stream of Lu and present them.

We pray you partake and look upon us, that there be no grief or doubt for all time.