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That Day at Sundown Master Bak Munno Takes Me to His Hangok Villa to Lodge, and Returning at Night He Sets Out Wine, So I Compose This是日日暮。朴君文老邀予往宿漢谷別業。夜歸置酒有作。
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.
竝轡丹楓路。靑蛾細馬駄。卸鞍喧櫪馬。擡炬落林鵶。愛客期投轄。遊仙到爛柯。旅情多感寓。擊節自狂歌。
Reins side by side, we go the maple road, and green brows are carried on the small horses. The saddles loosed, the horses at the trough are loud; the torches lifted, the crows in the grove fall down. Loving his guest, he means to throw away the linchpin; roaming like immortals, we have come to where the axe handle rots. Stirred by a traveler's feeling, there is much I would send into verse, and beating the measure I sing of myself as though gone mad.
Interlinear notes 1
時二妓從之。
Two kisaeng went along at the time.