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Come Again to Hwangnyeo, Shown to Yi Gyejae復黃驪。示李季才。
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.
歲半東遊歲杪還。光陰空擲道途間。秋霜染盡吳中樹。暮雨昏來楚外山。橐底酒錢渾罄倒。篋中詩卷更追删。多君獨唁羈離客。置酒仍呼兩小鬟。
I roamed east half the year and come back at the year's end, having flung my days away for nothing on the road. Autumn frost has dyed every tree in the land of Wu; evening rain comes darkening over the hills beyond Chu. The wine money at the bottom of my bag is all poured out; the scroll of poems in my case I prune down further still. Thank you, sir — you alone console a wandering guest, setting out wine and calling in two little serving girls.