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Matching the Rhymes of the Three-Hundred-Rhyme Poem Presented by O Semun, Academician of the Eastern Pavilion, to the Academicians of the Edict Academy — Colophon次韻吳東閣世文呈誥院諸學士三百韻詩 跋尾
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 5 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.
吳公之詩。皆挾古事。又欲觀予押强韻處。俾皆挾注。予恐後人譏謗。故皆删去之。唯存略注。
Master O's poem is in every part bound up with matters of old. Again, so that the places where I had set hard rhymes might be seen, notes were attached throughout. I feared that those who came after would find fault, and so I cut them all away and left only brief notes.