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Visiting the Head Seat Yeong (聆首座) at Jogam訪足庵聆首座
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.
一徑松陰訪足庵。曉風吹帽任欹簷。靑山繞屋雲生榻。碧樹低窓露滴簾。食罷仍傾霞液酒。醉餘還置水精鹽。此生何處開眉笑。贏得今朝四事兼。
By one path of pine shade I seek out Jogam (足庵); the dawn wind blows my hat and leaves it tilted crooked toward the eaves. Green mountains ring the house, and clouds rise on the bench; blue trees hang low at the window, and dew drips on the blind. The meal done, we go on to tip wine like the juice of sunset haze, and in the dregs of drunkenness set out crystal salt again. Where in this life can one unknit the brows and laugh? This morning I have gained all four things at once.