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On the Second of the Ninth Month, the Secretary Opens a Feast at the Public Office and Invites Me; Drunk, I Give Him This九日二日。書記開筵公舍見邀。醉贈。
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.
犀鎭紅筵闢畫堂。綺羅交鬪玉簪光。優人得意多供笑。官妓承歡屢整粧。石竹裙翻微露襪。櫻桃口小細調簧。紫雲在席誰先問。忽憶分司御史狂。
A crimson mat weighted with rhinoceros horn is spread on the painted floor, and silks mingling vie with the sheen of jade hairpins. The players, having their way, offer up much laughter; the official kisaeng (官妓), bearing up the joy, often redo their paint. Pink-flowered skirts flutter, and the stockings just show; small mouths like cherries finely tune the saenghwang mouth organ. Jaun (紫雲) is in the company — who will be first to ask for her? Suddenly I recall the wild doings of the Branch Office Censor (分司御史).
Interlinear notes 1
一首
One poem.