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Sharing Out with Others a Crane-Feather Fan Sent from My Office得本省所送鶴翎扇分人
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.
雪紙鶴飜翎。金環鼠開目。張翕因筠籤。翩翩得風足。六月手中搖。炎光何處伏。宜哉分與人。引涼那忍獨。
The snow-white paper is like a crane turning over its feathers The gold ring is like a mouse opening its eye Along the bamboo ribs it spreads and folds And flutter by flutter it wins wind in plenty Shake it in the hand in the sixth month And where will the blazing glare not go to hide It is fitting to share it out with others How could I bear to draw the coolness in alone
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世以金環爲鼠目
In the world the gold ring is called a mouse's eye.