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Matching the Rhymes, Harmonizing with Minister Choe Seon's Reply to Vice Director (郞中) Hwang's 「Six Poems on the Flowerpots at the House of Pak of the Inner Garden」 — The Bamboo次韻。和崔相國詵和黃郞中題朴內園家盆中六詠。 竹
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 7 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.
欲試君賢豈一端。悍根又奈石盆寒。箇中尙有湘江意。直作攙天玉槊看。
How should there be only one way to try your worth? What can even a stubborn root do against the cold of a stone pot? Within it there is still the mind of the Xiang River (湘江), so look on it straightway as a jade spear piercing the sky.