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On the Twenty-Third of the Ninth Month, Entering Jeonju, I Write My Feelings on Horseback九月二十三日。入全州。馬上書懷。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 9 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.
北堂揮涕忍辭親。輦母之官愧古人。忽見完山靑一點。始知眞箇異鄕身。
Scattering tears in the north hall, I brought myself to take leave of my parent, and I am ashamed before the ancients who took up office with their mothers along. Suddenly Wansan (完山) appears as a single point of green, and only now do I know I am truly a body in a strange land.
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母以病不歸。故云。
My mother could not come along because of illness, and so I spoke thus.