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Poems for the Figured Screen (文機障子) and the Lantern at the Lantern Evening of the First Full Moon — Composed and Presented by the Academy of Letters · The Figured Screen上元燈夕。文機障子,燈籠詩。翰林奏呈。 文機障子
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.
夜勑金門九扇開。玉簫聲裡宴瑤臺。百枝燈影搖宸仗。萬歲山光入壽杯。踏席腰輕仙妓舞。緣橦踉絓侲童才。太平多暇宜同樂。恩許千官徹曉陪。
By night he commands the nine leaves of the Golden Gate (金門) thrown open, and amid the sound of jade flutes there is feasting on the Jasper Terrace (瑤臺). The shadows of a hundred lamp-branches sway the royal regalia, and the light of Manse Hill (萬歲山) enters the cup of long life. The dance of the immortal courtesans treading the mat is light at the waist, and the skill of the boys climbing the pole is perilous to watch. The realm is at peace and leisure is ample, so it is fitting to rejoice together, and in his grace he has allowed the many officials to attend until dawn.