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On the Fifth Day of the First Month, Thanking Yi, Director of the Chancellery, for Calling on Me正月五日。謝李平章見訪。
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.
閑枕猶高日晏時。一聲乾鵲噪林枝。忽聞窮巷喧傳哄。知有華軒喜展眉。失帶至煩疲婦覓。忘冠還被小兒欺。相逢欲話無窮事。拂袖忙迴恨可追。
The day was late and my idle pillow still high when a single magpie's cry chattered from a branch in the grove. All at once I heard a bustle in my out-of-the-way lane and, knowing a noble carriage had come, unknit my brows in joy. Having lost my belt, I troubled my weary wife to look for it; having forgotten my cap, I was laughed at by the little ones instead. I meant, on meeting you, to talk of endless things, but you shook out your sleeves and hurried home, and regret came after.
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仁植
Insik (仁植)
予時未起。
I had not yet risen at that time.
忘冠又失帶。孫兒等笑之。
I forgot my cap and lost my belt besides, and my grandchildren laughed.