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On the Six Scenes of Master Im Gyeonggyeom's Bedside Screen — Ziyou Calls on Dai Andao題任君景謙寢屛六詠。與尹同年等數子同賦。 子猷訪戴

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 11 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.

訪人情味雪溪中。若便相逢一笑空。莫道興闌廻去棹。造門直返意無窮。

The savor of calling on a friend lay in the midst of the snowy stream; had they met at once, one laugh and it would have come to nothing. Do not say that his pleasure ran out and he turned his oar for home — reaching the gate and turning straight back, the meaning has no end.