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Drinking at a Friend's House on the Seventh Night七夕飮友人家
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.
銀漢橫斜月漸彎。良宵靈匹正成歡。憑君要喚娥眉𧰟。天上人閒樂一般。
The River of Heaven flows aslant and the moon bends more and more, and on this fine night the divine pair are just now making their joy. I ask of you: call in a woman of fair brows. Above the heavens or in the world of men, joy is one and the same.