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Writing My Feelings in the Camp and Presenting Them to Vice Minister Bak Inseok, the Signatory Judge軍幕書情。呈簽判朴侍郞仁碩。

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 · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

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.

紅旆飜風颺半天。碧幢遮日卓高巓。震空雷吼三軍皷。冠岫雲屯萬竈烟。筆下檄章慙我鈍。幕中籌策仗君賢。何時縛致渠魁首。一路垂楊奏凱旋。

Red banners are turned over by the wind and fly in mid-air, and blue standards hide the sun as they stand on the high summit. The thunder-roar that shakes the void is the drums of the three armies, and the cloud that caps the peaks is the smoke of ten thousand cookstoves. For the proclamation beneath my brush I am ashamed of my dullness, and for the stratagems of the camp I lean upon your worth. When shall we bind their chief and bring him in and announce our triumph beneath a fathom of trailing willow?

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時屯雲門山。

At that time we were encamped on Mount Unmun.