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Invocation for the sacrifice at the year-end offering in the Great Ancestral Shrine, with fish presented as well大廟臘享兼薦魚祭祝
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.
蜡索萬物。式陳苾苾之羞。潛有多魚。兼備莘莘之薦。幸加聦享。以答孝悰。
With the year-end offering we seek out and gather all things, and here set out fragrant food. There are many fish in the waters, and so we have prepared abundant offerings as well.
We pray you hear and partake in your brightness, and answer our filial hearts.