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Written on the Fifteenth of the Ninth Month in the Gyeongja Year While Revising the Documents to Be Sent to the Mongols庚子九月十五日。修蒙古所送表狀有作。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 7 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.
懸車殘老筆宜停。輒欲和通兩國情。文拙未宣天子意。不如閑坐度餘生。
An old man who has laid down office ought to stop his brush, yet all at once I am to make the feelings of two states pass between them. My writing is clumsy and cannot set forth the Son of Heaven's intent; better to sit idle and pass out what is left of my life.
Interlinear notes 1
有蓄意故云
He said so because he had something in mind.