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Again Following the Rhymes of Weinan's "At Xunyang, to Du the Collator"又次渭南潯陽杜校理詩韻
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.
虎穴何時一掃空。年光虛擲朗吟中。儒冠强備參謀客。軍幕猶寬嗜酒翁。竹塢露寒聞警鶴。蘆洲日暖見來鴻。憂來寓目唐賢傳。掩卷霑巾憶晉公。
When shall the tiger's den be swept empty at a stroke? Amid my ringing chanting the months and years are thrown away for nothing. With a scholar's cap I have forced myself into the part of a staff adviser's guest, and the camp is generous enough to take in an old man fond of wine. On the bamboo-grove bank the dew is cold and I hear the watchful cranes cry; on the reed islet the sun is warm and I watch the geese come in. When care comes I set my eyes on the lives (傳) of the worthies of Tang, then close the book and wet my kerchief, thinking of the Duke of Jin (晉公).