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Lying on the Couch, Drawing in the Breeze臥榻引風
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.
杲日人間來酷吏。淸風榻上臥羲皇。快襟拂面渾閑事。更入紗巾灑頂涼。
The blazing sun is a cruel official come into the world of men, while on the couch where the clear wind blows it is as though I lay in the days of Fuxi. To cool the collar and brush the face is but a common thing; the wind comes again into my gauze (紗) kerchief and sprinkles coolness on my crown.