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Matching the Rhymes of Academy Registrar Yun's 「Drunken Sleep on a Spring Dawn」次韻尹學錄春曉醉眠

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 2 passages · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

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.

三杯卯飮敵千藥。一枕春眠直萬金。莫遣黃鸎啼傍耳。夢魂方向玉樓尋。

Three cups drunk in the morning are a match for a thousand medicines, and one pillow of spring sleep is worth ten thousand in gold. Do not let the yellow oriole cry beside my ear: my dreaming soul is just now on its way to the Jade Tower (玉樓).

Interlinear notes 1

二首

Two poems.

睡鄕偏與醉鄕隣。兩地歸來只一身。九十日春都是夢。夢中還作夢中人。

The land of sleep borders especially on the land of drink, and though I come back from both places, there is only one body. The ninety days of spring are all of them a dream, and within the dream I become a man of the dream again.