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Meaning to Go Back the Next Day, I Write on the Wall in an Old Poet's Rhymes and Show It to My Host明日將還。用古人韻。書壁上示主人。
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.
挽袖留云切。趨塵意不同。雖然微雨濕。猶有敗天公。
You tug my sleeve and press me earnestly to stay but my mind, which chases the dust, is not of the same sort Though I be soaked in the drizzle still there are those who put heaven in the wrong