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On a Day of the Sixth Month, Setting Out Early from the Capital for Jeonju, I Meet on the Road the Master Coming from Sangju with a Memorial, and Reaching Yangjae Station Together We Lodge Together, and I Give Him This六月日。早發長安指全州。中路遇尙州持表先生。同至楊材驛。共宿贈之。
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.
共乘飛傳指天涯。笑晤聊寬客裏悲。雨滴油衣元末着。風飄紗帽不勝攲。孤村淡淡人煙起。一路依依驛柳垂。綠酒三杯君莫讓。聖恩猶及旅行時。
Together we ride the flying post and point toward heaven's edge, and laughing and talking we ease a little the sorrow of the road. The raindrops fall on the oiled coat but never cling, the wind blows the gauze cap so that it cannot help tilting. Over a lonely village the smoke of cooking rises thin, along the one road, as if loath to part, the station willows hang. Do not refuse, sir, the three cups of green wine: the king's grace reaches even to the time of travelling.