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On the Double Ninth, Privy Councillor Lord Bak Invited Me to Drink Again, and on the Spot I Ran My Brush, Made a Poem, and Presented It重九日。朴樞府相公復邀飮。卽席走筆。賦詩以呈。
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.
誰訊堂中華髮老。尙無門外白衣人。賴公喚與開歡飮。免負今年泛菊辰。
Who comes to call on the white-haired old man in the house? Still there is no messenger in white outside the gate bringing wine. Thanks to your summons, my lord, and the merry drinking you opened, I shall not have failed this year's day for floating chrysanthemums.