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That Day the Secretary Sees Me Off at Sinheung Monastery, and I Follow the Rhymes Choe Baekhwan Set Down First是日。書記出餞新興寺。次崔伯桓首題韻。
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.
江南蕭洒荻花秋。多謝郞官餞遠遊。纖玉莫彈箏一曲。絃絃揔帶萬般愁。
South of the river it is the lonely autumn of reed flowers, and my thanks that the officer (郎官) sees me off on so long a road. Fair hands, do not play one tune on the jeng zither (箏); every string of it is laden with sorrow upon sorrow.