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Invocation for the autumn sacrifice, offered as always at the Altars of Soil and Grain — Houji (后稷)秋例社稷祭祝 后稷祝
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.
稼穡功高。粒蒸民莫非極。蘋蘩禮薄。有明信可薦。神惟祀是歆。迺農之慶。
High is your merit in sowing and reaping, and in nothing is your feeding of the multitude less than utter. The rite of water plants and mugwort is meagre, yet there is bright faith in it, and it may be presented.
If you partake of this sacrifice, that itself is the gladness of the farming year.