Jiao Rite Petition at the Polo Ground in Donggyeong, Praying That Calamity Be Turned Away at the Year's End — Third Cup東京行季年祈禳毬庭醮禮文 三獻
氣判上淸下濁。神行乎間。祭致一純二精。應在于邇。伏念臣嗣承祖統。奄莅民區。念長轡遠御之謀。痛加勵飾。無大明旁燭之智。動闇幾微。其在朝昏。尙難宴息。陰陽推代。雖關天數之常。晦朔會交。猶戒禍胎之漸。况採言於邃術。當有毖於季年。庶仗眞庥。獲延景祚。爰取杪商之凄節。伻投陪邑之殊庭。祗展法壇。仰迎仙仗。藉茅席地。猶可降於靈眞。酌水獻花。庶俯垂於臨格。伏望僉紆聦享。旋錫純禧。曆服無彊。必等南山之壽。邦家永泰。一如東戶之時。內無犯紀之人。外絶窺邊之虜。
The breath divides, clear above and turbid below, and the spirit moves between them; the sacrifice exhausts its single purity and its two essences, and the response is near at hand.
Prostrate, I consider that I, your servant, have received the great stem of my ancestors and suddenly come to preside over the land of the people. Thinking of the plan that drives far with a long rein, I have added painfully to my striving and polishing; yet having no wisdom greatly bright and shining all around, I am dark as to the first hint of every movement. Morning or evening, it is still hard for me to rest at ease.
That yin and yang push and alternate is bound to what the courses of heaven have fixed; yet at the meeting of the last day of the month with the first, one is still on guard lest the germ of calamity spread. Still more, when words are drawn from the deep arts, they say there is cause to be careful at the year's end. I pray that, trusting in true help, I may be able to increase great blessing.
Therefore, taking the desolate season of late autumn, I send men to go to the special court of the other capital. Reverently the altar of the Law is spread, and we look up to welcome the immortals' train. Even with sedge laid down and the ground for a seat, one may still bring the numinous and true ones down; and so, drawing water and offering flowers, we pray that you look down, preside, and come.
Prostrate, I pray that you all bend down and partake in brightness, and then send down unmixed blessing. Let the years we enjoy be without end, surely like the lifespan of the Southern Mountain; let the state be long at peace, just as in the time of Dongho (東戶); and let there be, within, no man who breaks the bonds of order, and, without, an end to barbarians who spy upon the frontier.