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At My Thatched Hall I Set Out Wine with Several Friends and, Taking the Rhymes of Wang Jinggong's Poem, Each of Us Composed草堂與諸友生置酒。取王荊公詩韻各賦之。
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.
年來腰帶漸寬圍。夢繞靑山尙未歸。曾被營營來點白。春寒猶恐有蠅飛。
Of late my belt grows looser and looser, and my dreams circle the green mountains, yet I still cannot go back. Once the buzzing things came and spotted what was white, and though the spring is cold I still fear the flies may fly.