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With Yu and Yu, my two fellow graduates, visiting the Elder Mun, we each composed to the rhymes of Wen Feiqing's poem同劉兪兩同年訪文長老。用溫飛卿詩韻各賦。

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 · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

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.

杏園當日宴遊同。廻首繁華醉夢空。兄弟不應慙魯衛。姓名曾共記瀛蓬。兪公沈靜含澄韻。劉子淸眞振素風。共訪禪英論夙抱。懶將雙脚踏塵紅。

That day we feasted together and played in the Apricot Garden (杏園), and when I turn my head the splendor is as empty as a drunken dream. As brothers you have nothing to be ashamed of before Lu and Wei, and your names were early set down together on Yingzhou and Penglai. Lord Yu is composed and still, and holds a clear savor in him, and Master Yu is clear and true, and shakes out a white wind. Together we seek out the eminent man of the Zen gate and discuss our long-held purpose, and in our idleness we will not tread the red dust with our two legs.