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Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 6 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.
路入荒榛怯日斜。忽聞啼犬認人家。孤村畏盜猶橫戟。古院逢僧暫試茶。萬里歸雲閑送鶴。一溪高柳靜藏鵶。此身會作江山主。聞道黃驍似永嘉。
The road enters rough thickets, and I dread the slanting of the sun; then of a sudden I hear a barking dog and make out a human dwelling. The lonely village fears robbers and still keeps its spears laid crosswise, and at an old temple I meet a monk and taste tea a little while. The clouds going home ten thousand li send off a crane at their leisure, and the tall willows of a single stream quietly hide the crows. This body of mine shall at last become the master of these rivers and hills, for I hear it said that Hwanghyo (黃驍) is like Yongjia (永嘉).
Interlinear notes 1
黃驪一名黃驍。
Hwangnyeo is also called Hwanghyo (黃驍).