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Attending the King to Yeongtong Temple, I Borrowed the Purple Robe of a Certain Officer of the Cheonwon (天院) and Returned It with a Poem扈駕靈通寺。借某天院紫衣。以詩奉還。

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.2 min

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.

玉堂老漢隨黃屋。金闕仙人寄紫衣。十里靑山松下路。滿身文彩鬪朝暉。

An old man of the Jade Hall follows the yellow-canopied carriage, and an immortal of the golden palace has sent along a purple robe. On the road beneath the pines through ten li of green mountains the patterns over my whole body contend with the morning sun.