The Great Yuan日月竝昌爭奈何
1When sun and moon flourish together
日月竝昌 爭奈何.
"The sun and the moon flourish together, and what is to be done?"
Interlinear notes 2
此四字, 其時術者之辭, 謂明昌中, 天兵始起之兆也.
These four characters were the words of a diviner of that time, and they told of the sign that the Heavenly army would first rise in the Mingchang (明昌) years.
日月竝昌 — 日 and 月 joined make 明, so the four graphs take the reign name Mingchang (明昌) apart. ― translator
2Smoke over the Ru River
汝水煙沈空鼎沸.
Smoke sank over the Ru River (汝水), and the cauldron boiled for nothing.
3The Great Yuan, the suzerain state
惟吾上國○大元興, 遍使黔蒼成疊疊.
Only our suzerain state, the Great Yuan (大元), arose, and it set the black-haired multitude everywhere to work, layer upon layer.
Interlinear notes 1
元年甲午, 我高宗二十二年也.
Its first year was the jiawu year, which was the twenty-second year of our Gojong.
4The king's virtue shines with it
巍巍蕩蕩無能名, 我君同德揚光彼.
So lofty and so vast that no name can be given it, and our king shares that virtue and raises its light with it.
5The myriad states come and become subjects
蹄航萬國竟來臣, 禹貢山川皆執贄.
The myriad states that hoof and ship can reach came at last and became subjects, and all the hills and rivers of the Yu gong (禹貢) took up their gifts.
6Nothing like it since the world began
土地之廣人民衆, 開闢已來無有譬.
The breadth of its land and the multitude of its people have had no like since the world was opened.