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Matching the Rhymes on a Visit from Jeon Iji and Elder Mun — Using the Rhymes of a Poem in My Gangnam Collection次韻全履之,文長老見訪。用吾江南集中詩韻。

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 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.

閉閣留賓手挽衫。細斟家醞綠如藍。閑呼玉局爭雙六。醉把朱絃弄十三。不必論文期渭北。端宜聯句會城南。殷勤最愛曹溪老。約我靑山共結庵。

I shut the chamber to keep my guests and tug at their shirts with my own hand, and pour the house wine thin, green as indigo. Idly we call for the jade board and contest at double-six; drunk, I take the crimson strings and play the thirteen notes. For discussing letters there is no need to appoint the north of the Wei: it is fitting rather that we gather south of the city and link verses. The one I love most dearly is the old man of Caoxi (曹溪), who has promised to build a hermitage with me in the green hills.