Sent to Academician Jang Jamok and Bae Dan of the Cheonwon (天院), with a Note Also to Head Seat Yeong of Jogam奉寄張學士自牧，裵天院湍。兼簡足庵聆首座。
春卿昨與張，裵兩公約訪足庵。僕忽爲事幹所迫。如虞芮相訟者。未果。下情深懷慙恧。謹以詩一首奉寄。謝罪萬一。
Yesterday Chungyeong (春卿) made an engagement with the two gentlemen Jang and Bae to visit Jogam (足庵), but I was suddenly pressed by business — like the two states of U and Ye (虞芮) at their quarrel — and it came to nothing. In my heart I was deeply ashamed, and so I respectfully send a single poem to make amends, if only for a ten-thousandth part of my fault.
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A preface is attached as well.
春官張學士。煌煌紫鸞姿。雖紆綬若若。屢有尋僧期。裵公亦仙伯。昂藏玉山鶴。朝遊紫禁中。暮訪靑山郭。憶昨遇兩公。鐺脚笑談同。飄飄碧霞想。一念煙蘿中。六眼淚同垂。眷戀足庵師。期遊遠公室。共擧陶潛巵。何意事大謬。滯留失奔赴。北望苦悁悁。目與心俱注。有如方瞳仙。夢裏期遊天。當時喜諾唯。覺後空茫然。我性雖耽幽。於世不無求。身如衡陽鴈。未免稻粱謀。倒盡天河水。難洗胸中累。方趨懸箔門。謾挹生毛紙。遙知一方丈。鸞鳳雜龍象。談道亮汪洋。論文亦曠蕩。聆公支許流。高行夙所仰。別來蓂朔周。不見間何曠。今日又參差。未成林下訪。異時罰疏慢。甘受三百杖。
Academician Jang of the Chungwan (春官) has the bearing of a shining purple luan-bird. Though the seal-cord hangs long at his waist, he has set many a date to go seeking monks. Lord Bae too is an elder among immortals, standing tall as a crane of the Jade Mountain. In the morning he roams within the purple palace, and at evening seeks the ramparts of the green hills. I think how yesterday I met the two gentlemen, and we sat facing one another like the three feet of a cauldron, laughing and talking as one. Lightly, lightly we thought of the blue evening glow, and with one thought were off among the misty vines. From six eyes the tears fell together as we longed for the monk of Jogam. We set a date to roam in Huiyuan's (慧遠) room, and to lift Tao Qian's (陶潛) cup together. How could I have meant it to go so greatly awry, that I should be held back and fail to hurry there? Gazing northward I fret and burn, eyes and heart drawn the same way, like an immortal with square pupils who sets a date in a dream to roam the sky: at the time he gladly gives his word, but once awake it is all vainly far away. My nature, though it delights in seclusion, is not without its seeking in the world. My body is like the wild goose of Hengyang (衡陽), not yet free of scheming after rice and millet. Though I tipped out all the water of the River of Heaven, it would be hard to wash the bonds from my breast. Just now I hurry toward the gate of hanging blinds, and idly take up a sheet of hairy paper. Even from afar I know that in one abbot's room luan-birds and phoenixes are mingled with dragons and elephants, that the talk of the Way is truly vast and wide, and the discourse on writing open and bright as well. Master Yeong (聆公) is of the company of Zhidun (支遁) and Xu Xun (許詢), and his lofty conduct I have revered from early on. Since we parted the mingjia (蓂莢) has gone round a month — how has the time of not seeing him grown so long? Today again it has gone awry, and my call upon him beneath the woods has come to nothing. Another day, as penalty for my neglect and sloth, I shall gladly take three hundred strokes of the rod.