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Drinking with a Friend When a Monk Asked for a Poem與友人飮。有僧乞詩。
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.
破除萬事千盃酒。話盡交情一點燈。飮劇言酣無小暇。咄哉還有乞詩僧。
What sweeps away all affairs is a thousand cups of wine what tells out all the feeling of friendship is a single lamp Drinking is pressing and talk is at its ripest, with not a moment's leisure — and bah! here is yet a monk begging for a poem