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Having Entered Sangju and Lodged at Dongbang Monastery, I Recite One Poem When Master Bak and the Two Young Scholars Choe and Kim Come Calling with Kisaeng and Wine入尙州。寓東方寺。朴君,崔金兩秀才携妓酒來訪。口占一首。

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

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.

感君携酒訪靑山。無限襟懷目擊間。尙有狂心餘舊習。屢擡雙眼注紅顔。

My thanks that you bring wine and come seeking me in the green hills; a boundless store of feeling lies in the moment our eyes meet. Still in this wild heart the old habit remains, and often I lift both eyes and pour them on the rouged faces.

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文老

This is Munno (文老).