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Matching the rhymes of the Elder Mun's poem on the tangerine次韻文長老賦橘
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.
荊土偏生託。璇星遍散飛。中藏白玉腦。外襲鬱金衣。種致將侯等。懷宜遺母歸。君從何處得。歲暮見方稀。
It grows clinging to the land of Jing (荊) alone, and the Xuan star (璇星) scattered everywhere and flew. Within it hides a pith like white jade, and without it is clad in a turmeric-colored coat. Planted and kept, it may be matched against a feudal lord; tucked in the breast, it is fitting to carry home and offer to one's mother. Where did you come by it? At the year's end it happens to be a rare sight.
Interlinear notes 1
斗樞曰璇星。散爲橘。
In the Doushu (斗樞) it says, "The Xuan star (璇星) scattered and became the tangerine."