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At Dusk I Enter Yugok Post-Station, Drink with Master Kim, and Give Him This暮入幽谷驛。與金君飮酒贈之。
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.
多生曾結好因緣。千里同遊僅半年。門外靑松如我瘦。階前綠竹似君賢。蕭條郡舍三秋臥。寂寞郵亭一夜眠。幸有還家餘喘在。不愁歸路亘綿綿。
Through many lives we must have tied a good bond, yet our thousand li of travelling together came to barely half a year. The green pines outside the gate are gaunt as I am; the green bamboo before the steps is worthy as you are. In a desolate county lodging I lay out three autumn months; in a silent post-house I sleep a single night. Luckily I have breath enough left to get home, so I do not fret that the road back stretches on and on.