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Getting the Seonmyeongdo Rice (蟬鳴稻)得蟬鳴稻。
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.
不欲負其名。趁得蟬鳴日。眼見新糓升。今年事亦畢。
Not wishing to fail its name, I got it in time for the day the cicadas cry. With my own eyes I see the new grain come up, and this year's work too is all finished.
Interlinear notes 1
早稻謂之蟬鳴稻。
Early rice is called seonmyeongdo (蟬鳴稻).