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Looking at Strained Wine, Using Letian's (樂天) Rhymes看汁酒。用樂天韻。
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.
新醪壓罷強澄淸。所得難過四五甁。計盞計時滋燥吻。猶勝大渴望旗亭。
I squeezed out all the new unstrained wine and forced it clear, and what I got hardly comes to more than four or five bottles. Counting the cups and reckoning the hours, I wet my dry lips, but it is still better than being parched and staring off at a wine shop.