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Room Being Left on the Paper, I Made One More Quatrain to Break His Intention of Going South紙有餘地。又作一絶。破南行之意。

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 · 20 Chinese characters · reading time 0.2 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.

月食行當復。絃絶亦可續。南遊幸勿卜。竟莫逃天祿。

The moon is eaten, yet before long it fills again And a broken string too can be joined Pray do not divine about going south In the end you will not escape the salary heaven gives

Interlinear notes 1

所和長篇云。他年卜南遊。

In the long poem he sent in reply he said, 「In days to come I shall divine about going south.」