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Moved in the Camp, I Use the Rhymes of Zhao Weinan's "Late Autumn in Chang'an"軍幕有感。用趙渭南長安秋晚詩韻。
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.
光陰苒苒去如流。帶雪南來又涉秋。杖劒沙頭看海市。解衣林下上岑樓。一心許國雖甘死。百感侵人漫與愁。悔斂輕狂落繩墨。野禽空困一籠囚。
The months and years go by as though they flowed away lightly; I came south bearing snow and have passed another autumn. Leaning on my sword at the sand's head I watch the mirage; loosening my robe beneath the woods I climb a high loft. With a whole heart I have pledged myself to the state and find even death sweet, yet a hundred feelings invade a man and give him sorrow for nothing. I repent having gathered in my light, wild spirit and fallen to the inked line: a wild bird, penned for nothing in a single cage, is weary.