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Again, Given to Lord Yun又贈尹公

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 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.

蔡門初倒屣。闕里孰麾墻。筆海怒濤迅。醉鄕歸路長。鵝黃空酌酒。雞舌早含香。何日同簪管。賡吟殿閣凉。

At the gate of Cai I was first met with the shoes put on backwards; at Queli (闕里), who ever pushed the wall away? On the sea of the brush the angry waves run swift, and in the land of drunkenness the road home is long. In the yellow color of a gosling we pour the wine in vain, and the scent of the chicken-tongue clove we held in the mouth long ago. On what day shall we stick our brushes in together and chant on at the coolness of the hall?