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Invocation for the autumn sacrifice, offered as always at the Altars of Soil and Grain — the Great Altar of Grain (大稷)秋例社稷祭祝 大稷祝
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.
食八政之先。孰尸焉者。神五糓之長。其至矣乎。冀歆黍稷之馨。俾遂倉廂之積。
Eating is first among the eight affairs of government — who has charge of it? The spirit is the elder of the five grains; how utter is your perfection!
We pray you partake of the fragrance of millet and panic grass, and bring to pass what shall be piled in the granaries.