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Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 32 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.
情深叙別。不堪分袂之悲。禮備贐行。聊奉賁身之服。所陳輕浼。幸示兼容。
My feeling is deep, and in speaking of parting I cannot bear the sorrow of dividing sleeves. I have prepared provisions for the road as the rite requires, and offer up besides a garment to adorn Your person. What I present is light and puts You to shame, yet I beg You to receive both together.