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On the Cold Food day, only wind and no rain寒食日有風無雨
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 3 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.
甚雨與疾風。寒節必所値。天爲介子推。似慰炎焚死。風以扇凄凉。雨以流淸泚。胡奈於今年。風微雨不至。天豈以日遠。未必一終始。更遲明年春。了知天之意。
Heavy rain and fierce wind Are what one surely meets in the Cold Food season It is as though heaven, for the sake of Jie Zitui (介子推) Were consoling him for having burned to death With wind it sends him coolness And with rain it lets clear water flow How is it that this year The wind too is calm and the rain does not come Is it that heaven, as the years grow distant Cannot keep its beginning and its end alike I shall wait for next spring again And find out clearly what heaven means
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戊戌年
This is the musul year.