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On the Ninth of the Ninth Month, I Call on the Abbot of Jabok Monastery and Stay to Drink九日。訪資福寺住老。留飮。
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.
門前不見白衣來。獨向僧家索酒杯。枝揷滿頭香滿口。免敎黃菊恨虛開。
Seeing no one in white come to my gate, I go alone to the monk's house and look for a cup. Sprigs stuck in till my head is full and the fragrance fills my mouth — so I need not regret that the yellow chrysanthemums bloomed in vain.