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Lodging at Hwagae Temple, Given to the Abbot寓花開寺。贈堂頭。
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.
暫得休休樂。聊償役役勞。石泉飛趁遠。松蔓走緣高。草際蟬遺蛻。林間鳥墮毛。憑師容卜築。小隱此簪蒿。
For a while I have won the pleasure of ample rest and so repay the weariness of all my struggling. The stone spring flies and runs far off, and the pine vines race and climb on high. Among the grasses a cicada has left its shell, and among the woods a bird has dropped its down. Leaning upon the monk, I have had leave to build a hut, and here, with a mugwort pin in my hair, I would hide myself small.
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時以病寓居。
At that time I lodged there because of illness.