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In Late Spring, Going with Choe Bosun the Erudite to Visit Yun Seyu the Recorder, We Set Out Wine and Each Composed to Dongpo's Rhymes暮春。同崔博士甫淳。訪尹注簿世儒。置酒用東坡詩韻各賦。

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 0.4 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 8 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.

對酌三盃酒。難窺數仞墻。落花詩思亂。殘日醉歌長。我鬢初抽綠。君名早飮香。相逢文字飮。何必奏伊涼。

Sitting face to face, we pour three cups of wine, and a wall of a fathom or two is hard to peer over. At the falling flowers my thoughts of poetry are in disorder, and in the lingering sun the drunken song runs long. My temple hair has only now pulled out its green, while your name drank in fragrance long ago. Having met, we drink with writing; why need we call for the Yiliang (伊涼) airs?