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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.
新帖羅襦細摺裙。雙鸞帳底笑留君。多情杜牧風流在。欲發狂言問紫雲。
A silk jacket newly stitched, and a skirt pleated fine, and under the curtain of the paired luan birds she laughs and makes you stay. The elegance of the warm-hearted Du Mu (杜牧) is left in you, and you would put out a mad word and ask after Ziyun (紫雲).