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Four Sheets of Ink Bamboo — Bamboo in the Wind丁學士掃與墨竹四幹。各作贊云。 風竹
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.
所貴於汝。節直而已。低昂不持。迺風所使。斯亦本空。孰披拂是。
What is prized in you is only that your integrity is straight That you sink and rise and cannot hold fast is what the wind makes you do This too is hollow within from the first so who is it that parts it and shakes it out?