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Kim Sinjeong, Academician-in-Waiting, Came with Wine, and I Ran My Brush on the Spot to Thank Him金內翰莘鼎携酒來訪。卽席走筆謝之。
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.
見訪閑門尙足榮。更携芳醞慰幽情。此心已直千金重。雖老何辭數爵傾。愛酒非關唯味味。陶懷欲遣不平平。我今樂飮君知不。請見歌聲雜笑聲。
To have you call at my idle gate was honor enough, and you came besides with fragrant wine to console my secluded feelings. This heart of yours is already worth a thousand in gold; old as I am, how should I refuse to tilt a few cups? I love wine not for its taste alone, but to melt my cares and make level what is not level. Do you know, or not, how gladly I drink now? Look at the laughter mixed into the sound of my singing.