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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.
薄寒不用妓成圍。劇飮須敎客倒歸。罷郡閑居君莫唁。野禽方喜出籠飛。
In this slight cold there is no need to be ringed about with entertainers; we must drink hard and send the guests home falling over. Do not console me for leaving the prefecture and living at leisure: the wild bird is just now glad to be out of the cage and flying.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
Two poems.
碁戰爭雄正對圍。醉鄕得路共尋歸。少年習氣猶依舊。雪色蠻牋筆似飛。
In the battle of go we contest for mastery, sitting face to face and hemming each other in; finding the road to the land of drunkenness, we seek it out and return together. The habits of my young days are still as they were: on snow-colored southern paper the brush seems to fly.