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Four Sheets of Ink Bamboo — New Bamboo丁學士掃與墨竹四幹。各作贊云。 新竹
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.
擘地而生。芳苞錦皮。誰擢其頸。挺然其猗。干天亦可。高則易危。
Splitting the earth you came out your fragrant sheath like silk Who drew that neck of yours up that you stand so tall and so fair? To pierce the sky is well enough but what is high is easily in peril