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The District Magistrate Invites Me to a Banquet, and I Recite One Poem縣宰邀宴。口占一首。
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.
喜看桃李滿河陽。不意絃歌至虎城。纖玉莫詞彈錦瑟。病中猶未減風情。
What a joy to see peach and plum filling Hayang (河陽), and beyond all expectation the geomungo and song have reached even Hoseong (虎城). Fair hands, do not refuse to play the silken geomungo; though I am ill, my relish for such things has not lessened.