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On the Night of the Twelfth Day, in a Dream Someone Called 「Pack up, pack up」 as Many as Three Times, So I Started Up and Made a Poem十二日夜夢。有人呼云打疊打疊。至于三。驚起有詩。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 17 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.

打疊打疊呼三聲。夢中之言定何謂。本無一物可打疊。唯檢此身餘有幾。

「Pack up (打疊), pack up」 — he called it three times; what on earth do the words in the dream mean? From the first I have not one thing worth packing, and even looking over this body alone, how much of it is left?