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Roaming with a Gallant on a Spring Day春日同俠客遊
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.
被酒行歌楊柳街。長安處處草萋迷。幽花泣露落未落。輕燕受風西復西。撩亂春情狂似絮。摧頽醉貌兀如泥。誰知白面酸寒客。偸傍香車看鬪鷄。
Soaked in wine I go singing down Willow Street; everywhere in Chang'an (長安) the grass grows rank and tangled. The hidden flower weeps with dew, about to fall and not falling; the light swallow takes the wind and goes west, and west again. My unruly spring heart is like mad willow-down; my crumbling drunken face stands stiff as mud. Who would know that this pale-faced, poor-and-cold wayfarer slips in beside the perfumed carriages to watch the cockfight?