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The County Magistrate Invited Me to a Feast at the River Pavilion, and the Next Day I Presented This in Homage縣宰邀宴江樓。明日奉贈。
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.
山水淸姸敵十洲。使君邀我宴江樓。郡人扶腋光生路。大勝朱翁晝錦遊。
The hills and waters, clear and fair, match the Ten Isles, and the Prefect has called me to feast at the river pavilion. The people of the county hold me up by the arms, and the road is bright with it, far better than Old Man Zhu's sporting in brocade by daylight.
岸上好花倡妓艶。樓前流水長官淸。玉樽未倒靑山暮。緩管哀絃尙殢膓。
The fair flowers on the bank are voluptuous as courtesans; the water that flows before the pavilion is clear as the magistrate himself. Before the jade wine jar is wholly tipped out the green hills grow dark, and slow flutes and mournful strings still hold my bowels fast.