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Entering the Palace on the Night of Lanterns, with Feeling燈夕入闕有感
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.
兩部笙歌淸碎玉。九門燈火爛分星。愚儒不及倡優輩。猶着緋袍入帝庭。
The reed-organs and songs of the two bureaus are clear as shattering jade, and the lamps of the nine gates dazzle as though the stars were parceled out. A foolish scholar is worth less than the troupe of entertainers, yet still he puts on the crimson robe and enters the palace courtyard.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
Two poems.
玉殿今宵宴侍臣。十分宣勸醉淋身。蛾眉班上揷花容。未必純爲過我人。
In the jade hall a feast is given tonight for the attending officials, and urged to drink to the very full, the wine soaks through my body. The flowers set above the file of fair brows — not all who wear them are better men than I.