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Seeing Off a Friend Bound for Sangju, Drawing the Rhyme-Word "eom" (嚴)送友人之尙州。得嚴字。
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.
瘴國迢迢入柱南。憐君輕觸曉寒嚴。故人情重登山送。慈母恩深陟屺瞻。渡嶺雪愁隨鴈苦。過江風信掛烏占。玉顔記我如相問。爲說形容漸瘦纖。
Into the sweltering country, far off south of the pillar you go; I pity you, who make so light of the bitterness of the dawn cold. An old friend's feeling runs deep, and he climbs the hill to see you off; a mother's kindness runs deeper, and she climbs the bare ridge to look for you. Crossing the pass through snow, you grieve at the hardship of following the geese; over the river, word of the wind hangs on the omen of a crow. If that fair face remembers me and happens to ask, tell her my frame is growing thinner by the day.
Interlinear notes 1
母在尙州。
His mother was in Sangju.