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Two Songs on the Painted Scrolls in the Abbot's Quarters of the Monk Wol — Peach Blossom Among the Bamboo月師方丈畫簇二詠 夾竹桃花
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.
綠竹是君子。紅桃眞美姬。夭顔巧媚嫵。干此凜凜姿。此君孤節苦。爭肯爲爾移。暫時強攀附。能到雪霜隨。炎涼不相保。安用配君爲。
The green bamboo is the gentleman the red peach is truly the beauty With her young face she fawns artfully and offends against this stately bearing Your lonely constancy here is firm so how should it shift for your sake? Though you cling and hang on a while by force can you follow him until the snow and frost come? You cannot keep to heat and to cool together so how will you be his mate?