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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.
一爐烘火赭如霞。卯飮三盃面已酡。猶勝着鞭衝雪客。馬頭呵手趁朝衙。
In the single brazier the fire burns red as the sunset glow, and after three cups of morning wine my face is already flushed. Better this, surely, than the traveler who takes up his whip and pushes through the snow, blowing on his hands at his horse's head to reach the morning audience in time.