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Again Answering Letian's "Mind and Body Ask and Answer" — The Mind Asks the Body (又和樂天心身問答 心問身)又和樂天心身問答 心問身
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 2 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.
世路煩君久擾然。從今但許醉兼眠。如何先我多衰弱。我壯猶如始冠年。
On the roads of the world I troubled you and long kept you in turmoil; from now on I shall allow you only to be drunk and to sleep. Why have you grown so feeble before me? I am still as hale as in the year I first put on the cap.