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Feeling My Thought Still Wanting, I Make Another Quatrain and Offer It Up意有未足。又作一絶奉呈。

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 6 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.

德望平生謝孔光。敢期靈壽受於王。忽蒙冢宰千金貺。公路扶行亦未妨。

In virtue and repute I fall all my life short of Kong Guang (孔光), so how should I dare hope to receive a yeongsu staff (靈壽杖) from the king? Of a sudden I have received the Chief Minister's gift worth a thousand in gold, and to walk the high road staff in hand will be no hindrance either.