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On the Nineteenth of the Twelfth Month, Having Been Slandered and Replaced, I Wrote on the Day I Left the Prefecture十二月十九日。被讒見替。發州日有作。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 10 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.
早圖斂退偶因循。竊祿忘羞果辱身。詣吏自明猶未得。仰天大笑更何陳。讒人尙在誰投虎。吾道難行謾泣麟。的是前生曾有債。不須惆悵也傷神。
Early I meant to gather myself and withdraw, but happened to dawdle on; stealing my salary I forgot shame, and sure enough I have disgraced myself. I could not even go to the clerks and clear my own name; I only look up at the sky and laugh aloud—what more should I report? The slanderer is still here; who will throw him to the tiger? My way is hard to practice, and in vain I weep for the girin (麟). Surely there was a debt from a former life; there is no need to grieve and hurt the spirit.
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無劾章
There was no document of impeachment.