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Jiao Rite Petition at the Polo Ground in Donggyeong, Praying That Calamity Be Turned Away at the Year's End — Second Cup東京行季年祈禳毬庭醮禮文 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.
羽葆芝軒。枉眞遊於下界。縹牋絳字。訴危懇於重霄。享于克誠。介以繁祉。
With feathered parasol and chariot of magic fungus, bend your true wandering down to this lower world. On jade-colored paper, in red letters, we lay our perilous and urgent plight before the layered heavens.
Partake of the sincerity we have been able to exhaust, and send down abundant blessing.