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Composed on Leaving Chungju, Bound for Hwangnyeo發忠州。將指黃驪有作。
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.
踏遍東南路。吾鄕欲去休。更尋松徑樂。深猒瘴天遊。過嶺捫紅日。循江瞰碧流。忠泉昨夜宿。越女笑難留。
I have trodden the roads of the southeast through and through, and would go home to my own village and rest. Once more I seek the pleasure of the pine-lined path, for I am sick to death of roaming under a sweltering sky. Crossing the pass, I grope at the red sun; following the river, I look down on the blue current. Last night I lodged by the Chungju spring, where even the laughter of the women of Yue could hardly hold me.