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At Heungwang Temple, Seeing the Son of Yi Misu, Academician (內翰), I Made a Poem and Gave It to Him興王寺。見李內翰眉叟子年可十二。通詩書。又能屬文。使之賦詩。嘆賞不已。以贈之。

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 · 84 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 2 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.

片雲紺髮覆額新。雙電光寒猛射人。彭公鑒識眞天眼。撫頂云是天猉獜。一編新詩風雨快。萬丈雄氣江海隘。鳳子鸞雛有異毛。瑤泉玉水無凡派。何必王家珠樹三。乃翁生君靑出藍。殷勤寄謝李眉叟。不如還與阿戎談。

Blue-black hair like a scrap of cloud newly covers his brow; the lightning of his two eyes is cold and shoots fiercely at a man. Lord Peng's eye for a man is truly the eye of heaven: stroking the boy's crown, he calls him a girin (猉獜) of heaven. One piece of new verse is brisk as wind and rain; his bold spirit of ten thousand fathoms makes rivers and seas too narrow. The phoenix's young and the luan's chick have feathers unlike the rest; jade springs and waters have no common current. Why must it be the three jewel trees of the house of Wang? Your father begot you — blue come out of the indigo. Earnestly I send my thanks to Yi Misu: better still would be to sit and talk with Arong (阿戎).

Interlinear notes 1

時彭上人屢稱賞。

At the time the Reverend Peng (彭上人) praised him again and again.