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New Year's Day of the Musul Year (戊戌元日)戊戌元日
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.
正朝拜賀禮皆删。只爲殘身自要安。門外雀羅方可設。如何賓客立盤桓。
The rites of New Year's greetings have all been cut away, simply because this worn body wants its own ease. Outside my gate one might well set a net for sparrows — how is it that guests stand about there, hesitating?
嗜睡輕拋守歲宵。日高猶臥放長謠。如今始得閑中詠。風雪天寒免會朝。
Loving sleep, I lightly threw off the year's-end vigil, and lay till the sun was high, letting out a long song. Only now have I come to chant in the midst of leisure, and on a day of cold snow and wind I need not go to the audience.
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是日有雪。
Snow fell on this day.