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Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 15 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.
1The first poem
少年登第兩先生。我亦曾爲出谷鸎。二桂一時同一府。此州眞得桂陽名。
You two gentlemen who passed the examination while young — I too was once an oriole that had come out of the valley. Two cassia trees have gathered at one time in one office, and this district has truly earned the name Gyeyang (桂陽).
Interlinear notes 1
二首
There are two poems.
2The second poem
登第三人交分厚。同寮千里宿緣深。各須努力流淸譽。小答州人拜賀心。
The bond among the three of us who passed the examination is thick, and our being in one office a thousand leagues away is because an old tie runs deep. Let each of us strive to let a clean name flow abroad and answer, if only a little, the heart with which the district's people bow and give us joy.
Interlinear notes 1
書生三人同寮。州人皆喜。
Three men of letters were in one office, and the people of the district were all glad.