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Invocation for the sacrifice at the Round Mound praying for grain on the first sin day — the sovereign enshrined alongside (配帝)上辛祈糓圓丘祭祝 配帝祝
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.
東秩恊時。南郊有事。思皇烈祖。功莫大於肇基。克配彼天。禮亦宜於古訓。宜臨侑坐。助介年祥。
The sequence of the sun's rising in the east accords with the season, and there is business at the southern outskirts. Thinking of our holy ancestors, no merit is greater than their first opening of the foundation; and that they are able to be matched with that heaven is a rite also fitting to the old teachings.
May you duly come to the seat of the one enshrined alongside, and help and enlarge the auspices of the year.
Interlinear notes 1
思皇烈祖 — read here as "Thinking of our holy ancestors." Taking 思 as an introductory particle, as in 「思皇多士」 of the Classic of Poetry, it may also be read "O holy ancestors!" — Translator