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Paper Being Left Over at the End, I Send Yet Another Quatrain末有餘紙。又以一絶寄之。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 9 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.

多少詞人和我詩。數篇成了豎降旗。嘉君痛礪鋒鋩銳。百戰場中輒出奇。

How many men of letters have replied to poems of mine? After making a few pieces they raised the flag of surrender. Admirable are you, who whet your blade's edge keenly and make it sharp, and on the field of a hundred battles suddenly bring out a strange move.

Interlinear notes 1

奇謂長篇廻文

By the strange move is meant the palindrome in a long piece.