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Four Seasons Songs Written on a Bed Screen in Another's Stead — A Summer Day代人書寢屛四時詞 夏日

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 3 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.

銀蒜垂簾白日長。烏紗半岸洒風凉。碧筩傳酒猶嫌熱。敲破盤氷嚼玉漿。

Silver garlic weights hold the blind down, and the daylight is long the black gauze cap pushed half back, the breeze blows cool Wine passed through a green lotus-leaf tube still seems too warm so we crack the ice on the tray and chew its jade juice