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Scholar Jeong Drew Me Four Stalks of Ink Bamboo and I Made an Encomium for Each — Bamboo in the Dew丁學士掃與墨竹四幹。各作贊云。 露竹

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 · 24 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 11 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.

介然孤竹。生亦艱澁。天其憐之。露以濡濕。宜體天意。逢雪勿怯。

Upright you stand, lone bamboo your very sprouting was hard and galling Heaven took pity on this and wetted you with dew Make Heaven's will your own body, as is fitting and when you meet the snow, do not be afraid