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On the Twenty-Ninth, Leaving Hwangnyeo, the Gentlemen of My Village Saw Me Off at the South Pavilion, and Scholar Yi Gave Me a Poem, to Which I at Once Replied in His Rhymes二十九日。發黃驪。鄕黨諸公出餞於南亭。李秀才贈以詩。卽次韻答之。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 6 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.
指點紅裙勸別鍾。孤煙落日揔愁容。十條纖玉休牽手。六尺飄蓬易轉蹤。紅葉九秋聊暫別。綠楊三月約重逢。尋盟異日知誰證。記取庭前戴雪松。
Pointing to the red skirts, they press the parting cup on me, while lone smoke and the setting sun wear nothing but a sorrowing face. Ten slender jade fingers — do not tug at my hand: six feet of windblown mugwort shifts its tracks too easily. Among red leaves in the ninth month we part a little while, and promise to meet again under green willows in the third. When some later day we look for our oath, who will stand witness, do you know? Mark well the snow-laden pine before the courtyard.