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On a Day of the Second Month, Seeing Off the Prefect Who Goes to Court at His Term's End, and Lodging at Night at Yeongnyeong Temple二月日。餞太守政滿朝天。夜宿永寧寺。
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.
遠餞朝天客。閑尋結草僧。春寒殘雪在。日暮凍雲凝。古壁苔纏錦。虛欞月耿燈。參軍乘暇日。臥任髮鬅鬙。
Far off I see away the guest who goes to court, and idly I seek the monk who lives in knotted grass. The spring is cold and there is snow left lying, the day darkens and the frozen clouds congeal. On the old wall the moss winds about like brocade, on the bare lattice the moon glitters like a lamp. The Adjutant (參軍), taking a day of leisure, lies down and lets his hair go tangled as it will.