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On a Summer Day夏日卽事
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 2 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.
簾幕深深樹影廻。幽人睡熟鼾成雷。日斜庭院無人到。唯有風扉自闔開。
The blinds hang deep and deep, and the shadows of trees turn; the recluse sleeps soundly, his snoring like thunder. In the courtyard where the sun has slanted no one comes, only the wicker gate opens and shuts of itself in the wind.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
Two poems.
輕衫小簟臥風櫺。夢斷啼鸎三兩聲。密葉翳花春後在。薄雲漏日雨中明。
In a single jacket, on a small bamboo mat, I lie by the windy lattice; two or three cries of an oriole break off my dream. Dense leaves screen the flowers, so they linger even after the spring has passed; thin clouds let the sun leak through, so it is bright even in the rain.