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Sacrificial address offered to my cousin, the general祭從兄將軍文
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 37 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.
云云。年三十而將軍。吾固懼其暴至。孰疾驅兮不顚。果殞身兮倏爾。嗚呼哀哉。我無同胞。惟兄是倚。今也云殂。孤根安庇。朝淚未乾。暮眼如水。酌酒兮永訣。情鍾兮曷已。
And so forth.
At thirty you became a general, and I feared from the first how sudden it was. Who drives fast and does not come to grief? And sure enough you suddenly lost your life.
Alas, how sad. I have no brothers of my own and leaned upon you, my elder, alone. Now that you are gone, under what shall this lonely root be covered? Before the morning's tears have dried, by evening both my eyes are like water. I pour the wine and part from you forever; how shall the affection gathered between us ever cease?
Interlinear notes 1
此已下私行
From here on, these were written on his own account.