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A Great Rain on the Twenty-fourth Day of the Fourth Month四月二十四日大雨
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 10 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.
昨晨猶喜一犁潤。今日決知千畝盈。滿國笑歌應已殷。浪浪聲裏但難聽。
Yesterday at dawn even enough to wet a single plowshare was still a joy; today I clearly know that a thousand furrows are filled to the brim. The laughter and singing of the whole land must already be loud, but amid the pouring sound of the rain it is only hard to hear.
Interlinear notes 2
二首○皆雙韻
Two poems. ○Both are in double rhyme (雙韻).
此月十九日小雨。
On the nineteenth day of this month a small rain fell.
屋漏未遑視。先欣萬物蘇。膏流深入地。無復慮禾枯。
I have no leisure yet to see that the house is leaking, for first I rejoice that all things are coming to life. Rich water flows and sinks deep into the earth, and no longer do I worry that the rice will wither.