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The Figured Screen Poem of the Lantern Evening (文機障子)燈夕文機障子詩
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 14 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.
綵天風颺舞龍鸞。黼座中開擁百官。燈隔紅紗光閃閃。佩敲蒼玉響珊珊。勑敎禁衛停嚴警。恩許都人快縱觀。欲識龜臺來獻壽。露香新摘碧桃寒。
Wind blows across the painted sky, and dragons and simurghs dance; the embroidered throne (黼座) opens at the center, ringed by the hundred officials. The lamps, with red gauze between, glitter with light; the pendant jades, striking green jade, ring out clear. He has bidden the Palace Guard (禁衛) leave off their strict watch, and in his grace allowed the people of the capital to look their fill. If you would know that they come from the Tortoise Terrace (龜臺) to offer long life, the freshly plucked green peaches (碧桃), misted with the scent of dew, are cold.