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In Bai Letian's Collection I Saw the Poem "The Home-Brewed Wine Has Newly Ripened and I Get Drunk Each Time I Taste It, So My Wife and Nephews Urge Me to Drink Less" — This Too Is Like Me, and So I Answer It (觀白樂天集家釀新熟。每甞輒醉。妻姪等勸令少飮之詩。此亦類予。故和之云。)觀白樂天集家釀新熟。每甞輒醉。妻姪等勸令少飮之詩。此亦類予。故和之云。
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.
兒曺亦解得傾卮。眞味何曾仔細知。早失山林長往計。未忘盃酒半酣時。我年雖老猶能飮。浮世長醒卽大癡。白首殘翁經事了。如今方聽爾言爲。
The children too know how to tip a cup, but how should they ever know its true taste in any detail? Early on I lost my plan of going off for good to the hills and woods, and I cannot forget the times I was half-drunk over the wine cup. My years may be old, yet I can still drink, and to stay forever sober in this floating world is the great folly. A white-haired old man left over has been through all there is to go through — and now, at this late day, am I to listen to what you say?