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Invocation at the several shrines of Seogyeong (西京) praying to avert the calamity when lightning struck the pagoda of Jungheungsa Temple西京諸神祠。行重興塔天震祈禳祝。

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 · 50 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 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.

逖矣鴦宮。震玆鴈塔。燁燁電威之所及。九級無遺。茫茫天意之未知。萬心同懼。肆修明祀。遣叩靈關。庶加護攝之私。終杜虞疑之兆。

In that far-off temple, lightning struck its pagoda. Where the flashing majesty of the thunderbolt reached, nine storeys fell without remainder; and not knowing the far-off will of heaven, the hearts of the myriad people are afraid together.

Therefore we prepare a bright sacrifice and send men to knock at the spirit gate. We pray you add the grace of your watchful care, and so ward off any sign of grief and doubt.