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Yi the Joint Manager (平章) Invited Me to Drink, and After Growing Drunk I Respectfully Presented This李平章邀飮。醉後奉呈。
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.
退藏蝸屋一淸羸。枉被佳招喜可涯。病脚遲回初似跛。感情騰躍助成馳。衰顔倚醉風難刮。輭話開懷日易移。七十耆翁扶腋到。喜公曾不故人遺。
Withdrawn into my snail's shell, a lean and threadbare man, undeservedly I receive a gracious summons—could my joy have any end? My sick legs faltered, and at first I seemed to limp, but a heart stirred with gratitude leapt up and helped me run. A worn face leaning on the wine's warmth—even the wind can hardly pare it; opening my heart in gentle talk, the sun shifts over easily. A man of seventy, held up under the arms, has come this far, and I rejoice that my lord has never cast off an old friend.
Interlinear notes 1
仁植
It is Insik (仁植).