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Matching the rhymes of the poem by Jeong Gongbun, Licentiate, congratulating the Elder Mun on his discourse before the king次韻鄭秀才公賁賀文長老對御談論
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.
詔許君前說苦空。緣君機辯冠禪叢。人間早駭金毛吼。天上親臨玉塵風。共羨方袍侵法衮。堪誇胡眼對重瞳。御園昨日葱成薤。果見高僧入禁中。
By edict you were allowed to speak before the king of suffering (苦) and emptiness (空), because your ready argument is first in the Zen gate. The world of men was startled long since by the roar of the golden-haired lion, and from above the heavens he came in person to the breeze of the jade whisk (玉麈). All envy it that the square cassock trespasses upon the robes of office, and it is worth boasting of that barbarian eyes faced the doubled pupils. In the royal garden yesterday the scallion became a leek, and sure enough we saw an eminent monk enter within the palace.