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Poetry as Music詩樂
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 1 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.
詩筵賡唱玉交鳴。大勝金絲迭奏聲。世俗不知眞樂在。徒稱嘯月冷書生。
Linked chanting at the poetry mat — as if jades rang against one another far better than the sound of metal and silk strings played in turn Worldly folk do not know that true music lies here and call us only chill scholars whistling at the moon
Interlinear notes 1
樂讀作音樂之樂
The character 樂 here is read ak, the word for music.