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Eight Songs on Minister Gi's Toesik-jae (退食齋) — Cheokseo-jeong (滌暑亭), the Pavilion That Washes Away Heat奇尙書退食齋八詠 滌暑亭

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 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 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.

傍簷涼竹綠陰稠。繞座寒泉爽氣浮。每到三庚金伏日。此亭淸冷恰如秋。

By the eaves the cool bamboo makes a thick green shade and the cold spring that rings the mats floats up a chill air Whenever the dog days of the three gyeong (三庚) come round this pavilion is clear and cool, just as if it were autumn