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Presented to the Gentlemen of the Inner Chancellery — Wang Ui (王儀), Secretariat Drafter呈內省諸郞 中書舍人王儀
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 5 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.
紫泥封了佩鏘琅。朝退渾身帶御香。大手直凌修月戶。淸才獨合判花郞。孔光溫室何言樹。杜牧中書屢拜囊。十載窮途無賴客。彈冠今喜遇王陽。
You seal with red clay and wear the pendant jades that go clinking. When you withdraw from the audience your whole body carries the king's fragrance. Your great skill goes straight beyond the house where the moon is trimmed, and your clear talent alone befits the gentleman who screens the flowers. How should Kong Guang (孔光) have spoken of the trees of the warm chamber? Du Mu (杜牧) in the Secretariat often bowed to the pouch. A wayfarer of ten years on a hard road, with none to lean upon, I dust off my cap and rejoice now to have met Wang Yang (王陽).