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Visiting the House of Yun Seyu, Academy Registrar, with the Elder Mun, and Matching an Ancient's Rhymes同文長老訪尹學錄世儒家。主人與文公次古人韻作詩。予亦次韻。
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.
甲第深深竹擁階。衲衣縫掖一時來。尋春共向藏花塢。入夜聊停問月杯。美酒全勝呑絳雪。淸篇還似讀靑苔。歸途應費兒童手。拍笑山公倒載廻。
A fine house, deep and deep, with bamboo wrapping the stone steps a quilted robe and a scholar's robe came at one and the same time Seeking spring, we went together to the bank where the flowers were hidden and when night came we merely stayed the cup that questions the moon Good wine is better than swallowing red snow and clear writing is rather like reading green moss On the road home I shall surely borrow the hands of the boys and they will clap and laugh that Lord Shan (山公) is carried home upside down