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The Parrot Is Best at Saying "A Guest Has Come," and the Lord Had Me Compose on It Again鸚鵡最善導客來。公又令賦之。
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.
語語尙堪聽。玲瓏豈不明。知公偏喜士。最善客來聲。
Every word it speaks is worth the hearing; clear and ringing — how should it not be bright? Does it know the Lord is especially fond of scholars? It is best of all at the cry, "A guest has come."