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On the Last Day of the Fifth Month, Running My Brush to Thank Academician Yi for Sending Wine五月晦日。走筆謝李學士送酒。
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.
門閑家冷無來客。把酒何人慰我情。獨有君侯猶記舊。殷勤乞與一壺淸。
The gate is idle and the house is chill, with no guests coming; who will take up wine and console this heart of mine? Only you, my lord, still remember the old days, and kindly shared out with me one bottle of clear wine.
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百全
This is Baekjeon (百全).
二首
Two poems.
不因人絞坐澄淸。艶艶浮蛆撥更盈。未必苟貪濡燥吻。感君猶記老門生。
No one strained it, and yet of itself it has turned clear; and parting the fine lees afloat on it, it is fuller still. It is not only that I greedily wish to wet my parched lips; I am moved that you still remember this old disciple of yours.
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看浮蛆。乃知甕頭。
Only on seeing the lees afloat on it did I know it was the first draw from the jar.