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Using the rhymes of the poem before, I see off Yun Ui, Secretary, who goes to the headquarters at Donggyeong用前韻。餞尹書記儀赴東京幕府。

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 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.

除却今朝一笑同。詩壇三載恰如空。羨君劇郡堪游刃。愧我窮途尙轉蓬。關令後孫眞道骨。新羅古國揔仙風。才高地勝宜相敵。但莫鍾情臉斷紅。

Take away this one laugh we have together this morning, and the three years of the poets' circle seem well-nigh empty. I envy you: even in a troublesome district you may ply your blade; I am ashamed: on a hard road I still roll about like mugwort. As a descendant of the Keeper of the Pass (關令) you have truly the frame of a man of the Way, and the old land of Silla is all the bearing of immortals. Your talent is high and the place is fine, so the two are well matched. Only do not pour out your heart on one whose cheeks have lost their red.