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Jiao Rite Petition at the Polo Ground, Offered in Sanggyeong — Second Cup上京行毬庭醮禮文 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.
道寥兮若無。迎之不見。神洋乎如在。感而遂通。幸已垂華葆之一臨。冀更許洌觴之申獻。
The Way is still, as though it were not, so that we welcome it and do not see it; the spirit brims, as though it were present, so that when we feel it, in the end it gets through.
Happily you have already let down your flowered parasol and come once; I pray that you grant again that we may offer the clear cup a second time.