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Going from Sunchang County toward Jeonju, I Stop at Galdam Station and Use the Rhymes of the Gentlemen on the Board自淳昌郡向全州。入葛覃驛。用板上諸公韻。
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.
夕陽歸旆樹陰中。南道山川一樣同。垂柳惱人隨處綠。幽花無主爲誰紅。郵亭閱遍經由客。野性誰如放曠翁。不作怱忙乘傳態。解衣閑臥一軒風。
In the setting sun the returning banners are in the shade of the trees, and the hills and streams of the southern road are all of one fashion. The hanging willows vex a man, being green wherever he goes; the hidden flowers have no master — for whom are they red? The post station has known travellers passing through from everywhere, but for a wild nature, who is like this unbridled old man? I will not put on the look of one hurrying upon the post horse: I loosen my clothes and lie at leisure in the wind of a single veranda.