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Invocation for the autumn sacrifice, offered as always at the Altars of Soil and Grain — the Great Altar of Soil (大社)秋例社稷祭祝 大社
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.
贊天主地。物彙於焉資生。除土立壇。古今所以崇事。屬仲秋之令序。㳙上戊之吉辰。祗展薄禋。仰祈大稔。
You aid heaven and have charge of earth, and all the multitudes lean on you to live. Shaping earth to raise the altar is why you are served on high, now as in old times.
Meeting the fair season of the middle month of autumn, we have chosen the good day of the first mu day. We respectfully set out a meagre sacrifice and look up to pray for a great harvest.