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Written on the Road and Shown to My Nephew-in-Law Han So路上有作。示甥壻韓韶。
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.
簿書顚倒二年强。解綬歸來夢一場。道直誰憐元似矢。鬢斑爭奈漸成霜。滿山寒雪懶廻首。一路斜陽空斷膓。千里遠來深有意。爲吟長句示韓湘。
Over two years in a muddle among the ledgers; I loose the seal-cord and come home, and it has been one long dream. Who pities a way so straight it was ever like an arrow? And what can be done that my temples, half white, turn slowly to frost? With cold snow filling the mountains I am slow to turn my head, and on the one road under a slanting sun my heart breaks for nothing. Your coming a thousand li from afar holds a deep intent, so I chant a long verse and show it to Han Sang (韓湘).
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韶自京師。至全州迎去。
Han So came from the capital as far as Jeonju to meet him and bring him back.