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Bak, Administrator of the Privy Council, Invites Me to Drink — Seeing That He Had Written Out in His Own Hand My Record of Yuga Hall, Mounted It on a Board and Nailed It to the Wall, I Thanked Him There and Then with a Poem朴知院邀飮。方見公以予曾所著有嘉堂記。親書上板釘壁。卽席以詩謝之。
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.
霞鶩無嘉語。胡爲釘壁懸。不須紅袖拂。已勝碧瑤鐫。筆有飛騰勢。詞無篆刻姸。手書誠莫重。心感口難宣。我與公長在。堂兼記不遷。時時聊寓目。莫忘一狂顚。
There is in it no fine line to set beside “a lone duck in the setting glow,” so why have you nailed it up and hung it on your wall? Without need of red sleeves to flick the dust away, it is already better than something carved in green jade. The writing has a soaring force, and the prose has nothing chiselled and ornamented about it. That you wrote it out in your own hand is a weight beyond all measure; my heart is moved, yet my mouth can hardly say it all. If you and I are long in this world, and the hall and its record are likewise not carried away, then now and then let your eyes rest on it, and do not forget one madman.
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