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Invocation announcing the full moon of the intercalary month to the Great Ancestral Shrine大廟閏月告望祝
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.
陽餘曰閏。方臨月望之辰。潦酌可羞。聊致時思之祀。庶加明允。以副孝誠。
Gathering the days left over in the year, we call it the intercalary month, and now the time of the full moon has come. Since even water drawn from a standing pool may be presented, we offer, for what it is worth, this sacrifice of seasonal longing.
We pray you hold it faithful in your brightness, and answer our filial devotion.