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Visiting No Yeonggi, Licentiate, We Composed Together to Bai Letian's Rhymes訪盧秀才永祺。用白樂天韻同賦。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 40 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 7 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.

半岸烏紗帽。閑敲綠玉扉。柳深鸎百囀。林晚鳥雙歸。太白甘時後。陶潛悟昨非。紛華方戰退。始覺卜商肥。

My black gauze cap tilted halfway back, idly I knock at the green-jade wicket gate. The willows are deep, and the oriole warbles a hundred times; the grove grows dark, and the birds come home in pairs. Li Bai took sweetly to what came after his time; Tao Qian (陶潛) woke to the wrongness of yesterday. The showy tumult of the world has just now fought and withdrawn, and only now I see that Bu Shang (卜商) has grown fat.