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On the Sixth of the Ninth Month, Hearing That Barbarian Troops Had Encamped Beyond the River, and the People of the Country Could Not but Be Alarmed, I Soothed Them with a Poem — Another九月六日。聞虜兵來屯江外。國人不能無驚。以詩解之。 又
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 5 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.
我道胡雛悍。僅若好吠犬。犬也好吠人。其終完者鮮。狺狺吠高耳。高德亦何累。但益修政經。保德兼保水。
I say that the fierceness of the barbarian whelps is no more than a dog that barks well When a dog barks well at the sight of a man it is rare that it stays whole in the end They only bark bow-wow at the sight of Goryeo and what flaw does that make in Goryeo's virtue? We need only polish the measures of government the more guarding our virtue and guarding the water as well