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Inviting Ham Jajin to My Thatched Study, I Sent the Poem on Ahead草堂邀咸子眞。以詩先之。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 13 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.
佳節駸駸去不留。可堪書室咄哉愁。有花絶欲邀賓賞。無酒猶能與婦謀。爲我何妨迴鈿勒。捨君誰與倒瓊舟。莫言窮巷無兼味。偶得紅鱸玉尺脩。
The fine season goes by quickly and does not stay; in my study, ah, how am I to bear this gloom? There are flowers, and I would call a guest to see them; wine there is none, but I can scheme for it with my wife. What of it if you turn your shell-bridled horse for my sake? If I give you up, with whom shall I tip the jade cup? Do not say the fare is meager in a poor back lane — I have just come by a foot-long red perch.