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In Early Autumn, Again with Elder Mun Visiting Kim Cheol; to the Rhymes of Bai Letian Each Composed a Poem on Early Autumn初秋。又與文長老訪金轍。用白公詩韻。各賦早秋詩。
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.
銀箭初驚漏漸遲。撑林朱實燦離離。輕絺寵薄身先認。團扇恩踈手始知。碧樹露寒蟬嘒曉。畫梁泥盡鷰歸時。要看詞客偏多感。宋玉悲辭吏部詩。
First startled by the silver arrow, the water-clock grows ever slower, and red fruit propping up the grove shines in heavy clusters. The body knows first that the light hemp cloth's favor thins; the hand only now knows that the round fan's kindness grows sparse. Dew is cold on the green trees, and cicadas cry at dawn; mud is spent on the painted beam — it is time the swallows went home. See how the poet is uncommonly full of feeling: Song Yu's mournful writing, and the poem of the Ministry of Personnel (吏部).