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Jiao Rite Petition at the Polo Ground in Seogyeong, Praying That Portents in the Heavens Be Turned Away — Second Cup西京行天變祈禳毬庭醮禮文 二獻
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.
不知名強爲名。所謂道也。常救物無棄物。其惟神乎。冀諒齋明。僉加保佑。
That whose name cannot be known, yet to which a name is forced, is what is called the Way; and that which always saves all things and casts nothing away — that, surely, is none but the spirit.
I pray that you weigh the sincerity we have made plain by fasting, and add to us your keeping and your help in all things.