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Jiao Rite Petition at the Polo Ground in Seogyeong, Praying That Portents in the Heavens Be Turned Away — First Cup西京行天變祈禳毬庭醮禮文 初獻

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

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.

在天在地。有象有精。苟誠忱之可通。卽上下之靡間。庶紆格止。俯允齋如。

You are in heaven and you are on earth; you have form and you have essence. Truly, if sincerity can get through, then there is no gap between above and below.

I pray that you bend down and come, and that you look down and grant the sincerity of our fasting.