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Chanting of the Wind on the Third Day of the Seventh Month七月三日詠風
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.
間闊難逢六月天。入秋三日斗凄然。隣家童子渾多事。喜向長空送紙鳶。
Our meetings were rare and you were hard to meet under the sixth-month sky; three days into autumn it has suddenly turned cool The children next door have grown wholly busy and gladly send paper kites off into the far sky