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Elegy for Gi, Chancellor (平章) — Composed and Presented by the Academy of Letters奇平章挽詞。翰林奏呈。
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.
三朝翼亮鐵心堅。富貴功名四十年。鳳閣早腰丞相印。鼇山兼領史臣權。金章解早方圖逸。紫府微忙亦要賢。池館蕭然空碧草。玉簪零落淚如泉。
Aiding three courts, his iron heart stood firm; wealth and rank, merit and fame, for forty years. In the Phoenix Pavilion (鳳閣) he early wore the chancellor's seal-cord at his waist, and on Turtle Mountain (鼇山) he held besides the authority of court historian (史臣). He loosed the golden badge (金章) early and meant now to be at ease, but the Purple Palace (紫府) too, it seems, was a little busy and sought a worthy man. The house by the pond is desolate, only green grass left, and the jade hairpin has fallen — tears like a spring.
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公引年致仕。
The lord retired from office on account of his age.
鷪溪里退食齋也。
This is the Toesikjae (退食齋) in Aenggye Village (鷪溪里).