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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.
十五女兒顔稍姸。呼之使前佯不睞。白首衰翁何所爲。不須多作嬌羞態。
A girl of fifteen whose face is fair enough — I called her to come before me, and she pointedly would not glance aside. What could a worn-out old man with white hair do? There is no need to put on so much of that bashful air.
Interlinear notes 1
此已上。收拾所得。無日月先後。
Up to here the pieces were gathered as they came to hand, so they do not follow the order of dates.