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Invocation announcing the undertaking to Songak (松岳) and the several shrines at the repair of Geonneung (乾陵)乾陵修理次松岳及諸神祠告事祝
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.
値坏土之見虧。將修先寢。備勺觴而潔薦。虔告靈祠。幸借歆容。許詳端緖。
Finding the earth of the burial mound fallen away, we are about to repair the resting place of the former king. Preparing ladle and cup, we present them in purity and respectfully announce it at the spirit shrine.
We pray you lend us your partaking, and look closely into how it came about.