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Withdrawing from the New Year's Day Court Assembly, Moved to Write元日朝會。退來有感。
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.
久貪名利夢方酣。未去田園面自慙。白首猶居百寮尾。藍衫木板趁朝參。
Long greedy for name and gain, my dream is at its ripest, and my face is ashamed of itself that I have not gone back to my fields White-haired, I still stand at the tail of the ranks of officials, in an indigo gown, holding a wooden tablet, hurrying to the court assembly
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時爲千牛參軍。
At the time I was Cheonu Adjutant (千牛參軍).
冷鞍敲鐙着鞭忙。雙闕相望尙杳茫。長嘯歸田應不餒。一年耕得一年糧。
On a cold saddle, stirrups struck, the whip is busy; I look toward the two palaces and they are still far off Though I whistle long and go back to my fields, I shall not go hungry: plow for a year and I shall get a year's grain