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Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 4 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.

早攀丹桂歷華資。位踐黃扉亦不卑。始憶牧之遊古寺。姓名猶欠一僧知。

Long ago I passed the examinations and held good offices one after another, and my rank reached that of chief minister, which is not low either. Now at last I think of Du Muzhi (杜牧之) roaming an old temple: there is not one monk here who knows my name.

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予往遊。居僧皆不知來。作詩寄之。

I went and wandered there, but not one of the monks staying there knew that I had come, so I wrote a poem and sent it.