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Hearing That the Royal Army Fought the Barbarians and Won · Again聞官軍與虜戰捷 又
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.
胡騎猶未殲。夜臥難交睫。郵筒疾似飛。報導官軍捷。一國喜濃濃。蔟賀如雲合。
The barbarian horsemen were not yet all killed, and lying down at night it was hard to close my eyes. The post-station tube came as swift as if it flew to tell that the royal army had won. The whole country brims with gladness, and gathers to give congratulation as clouds gather.