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At the Buryeong Guest House, Following the Rhymes of Yi Sunu the Libationer's (祭酒) Poem on the Board扶寧客舍。次板上李祭酒純佑詩韻。
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.
江山淸勝敵瀛蓬。立玉鎔銀萬古同。俗習例多如蜑子。縣封誰信自蠶叢。避風羸僕投巖下。厭雪飢禽落檻中。只是年來情味薄。元非不愛眼前紅。
River and mountain are clear and fine, rivaling Yingzhou and Penglai, and their look of standing jade and melted silver is one through all ages. The customs here are mostly, as one would expect, those of boatmen; and who would believe the town's enfeoffment came down from Cancong (蠶叢)? Fleeing the wind, a gaunt servant goes in beneath a rock, and hating the snow, a starving bird drops inside the railing. It is only that of late my feeling and savor have thinned — not that I never loved the red things before my eyes.