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Jiao Rite Petition at the Polo Ground in Donggyeong, Praying That Calamity Be Turned Away at the Year's End — Preliminary Invocation東京行季年祈禳毬庭醮禮文 先告祝
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.
自下界而去天。幾萬許步。諒卑誠而降駕。在一頃間。然無四直之靈。孰達九門之路。贊而格止。心固望焉。
How many myriad paces would it be to go from this lower world up to heaven? Yet for you to look into our lowly sincerity and send your chariot down is the matter of a moment.
Yet without the spirits of the Four Wardens (四直), who are charged with the four seasons, who would open the road through the nine gates? With all my heart I earnestly pray that you help and come.