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Again Following the Rhymes of "Late Autumn on the Han River"又次漢江秋晚詩韻
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.
促織催凉叫露叢。可憐猶費大倉紅。角聲晴碎靑山裏。劒影寒搖碧水中。滿眼無非橫戟士。縮頭翻愧弄毫翁。三軍未受冬衣賜。又是蕭蕭落木風。
The crickets hurry on the chill and cry among the dewy clumps, and pitiful it is that I still waste the aged grain of the great granary. The sound of the horn breaks apart in the blue mountains on a clear day, and the shadows of swords sway coldly in the green water. All that fills my eyes is nothing but soldiers holding spears athwart, and an old brush-plying man with his head drawn in is ashamed instead. The three armies have not yet received their winter clothing from above, and again there is the desolate wind of falling leaves.