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About to Set Out for Namwon, I Follow the Rhymes of a Poem on the Wall, Upstairs at Osu Station將向南原。獒樹驛樓上。次壁上詩韻。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 40 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min

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.

烏園侵午出。獒樹片時留。閑鹿眠深草。幽禽浴淺溝。山供滿目畫。風送一襟秋。再入帶方國。天敎飽勝遊。

I came out of Owon (烏園) toward midday and stop a little while at Osu (獒樹). An idle deer dozes in the deep grass, a hidden bird bathes in the shallow ditch. The hills offer up a painting that fills the eye, the wind sends an autumn that fills the breast of my coat. Entering once more the land of Daebang (帶方), I am granted by heaven my fill of fine roaming.

Interlinear notes 1

南原古帶方國。

Namwon is the old land of Daebang.