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Congratulating Privy Councillor Gi on Becoming Chief Minister賀奇樞密入相

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 · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 3 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.

聞公拜相倍欣然。且爲朝家賀得賢。內署直來黃閣密。新堤行處白沙連。玄成作鏡君心正。傅說調羹衆口便。草芥孤生偏踊躍。更磨頑鈍望陶甄。

Hearing that you have been appointed Chief Minister, my joy is doubled and I offer congratulations that the court has gained a worthy man Come straight from the Inner Secretariat (內署), the Yellow Chamber (黃閣) lies secluded and on the new embankment road white sand stretches on wherever you go Xuancheng (玄成) serves as a mirror, so the ruler's heart is upright Fu Yue (傅說) seasons the broth, so every mouth is at ease A lone scholar like a wisp of straw leaps for joy above all and hopes you will once more grind and shape what is blunt