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At Hyeeumwon, Following the Rhymes of Academician Im Huisu's Poem慧陰院。次林學士羲叟詩韻。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

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.

故園三逕忍敎荒。匹馬何之又夕陽。柳色依依風挽翠。松花撲撲雨黏黃。葵收鴨脚村烹好。酒漉魚涎野釀香。迎侍慈顔歸洛下。此遊不是費年光。

How could I bear to let the three narrow paths of my old garden go wild? On a single horse, where am I going? Again the sun is setting. The willow's color seems loath to go, and the wind draws out its green; the pine blossoms fall in dabs, and their yellow sticks in the rain. Mallow is gathered, and ginkgo nuts boiled in the village are good; the wine is strained, and the country brew, like fish spittle, is fragrant. I have met my mother and attend her, going back to the capital: this journey is no waste of the years.