Matching the Rhymes of Academician Jin's Poem on the Daeeun Tower (大隱樓) of Myo, the Corrector — It Stands by the Marketplace次韻陳翰林題苗正字大隱樓。在市邊。
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 · 94 Chinese characters · reading time 0.9 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.
I do not wish to shut an idle gate, drink wine, and cut down my guests;
I wish to gather drinkers in a great throng in the market streets of Chang'an and float the great cup.
Nor do I wish to sing little songs in a crooked chamber, a hidden room;
I wish to sing aloud and blow the flute in the houses of the bold and gallant.
The sorrowful man only knits his brow and does not speak his sorrow,
just like water beneath the ice, sobbing and unable to flow freely.
When sorrow comes, a true man should weep aloud at once,
and not weep in secret and bow his head to no purpose.
How free you are, Master Myo, hiding greatly in the midst of the nine markets,
laughing instead at the secluded green hills where men eat pine and drink water.