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On the Eighteenth, Composed on Horseback and Shown to Kim Jimyeong, the Daoist Travelling with Me十八日。馬上有作。示同行道士金之命。
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.
緩轡悠悠指驛程。耳邊猶帶管絃聲。忍敎紅袖佳人去。獨伴黃冠道士行。煙外遠山愁黛斂。風前垂柳舞腰輕。聯鞍欲話心中事。馬上無端夢易成。
I slacken the reins and amble along, pointing out the post-road ahead; my ears still carry the sound of pipes and strings. I have had to send away the lovely one in red sleeves, and ride on with only a Daoist in a yellow cap for company. Beyond the mist the far mountains knit their brows in sorrow; before the wind the drooping willows are light as a dancer's waist. I would draw my saddle beside his and speak of what is in my heart, but up on the horse, for no reason at all, dreams come easily.
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妓欲從之。固禁。故云。
A courtesan wished to come along, and he firmly turned her back, and so he said this.