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On a Winter Day, Drinking Cold Wine with a Guest, Made in Jest冬日與客飮冷酒。戱作。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 12 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.
雪滿長安炭價擡。寒甁凍手酌香醅。入膓自暖君知不。請待丹霞上臉來。
Snow fills Chang'an and the price of charcoal rises, and with frozen hands I pour the fragrant wine from a cold flask. Do you know that it warms of itself once it enters the belly? Wait and watch for the red glow to rise in your cheeks.