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The Two Men Harmonized, and I Answered Them Again二子見和。復答之。
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.
雪華堆瓦縫。寒氣束林梢。道已將時左。愁宜託酒消。天門鳴鈿轂。仙禁簇金翹。獨向窮山去。只應猿鶴邀。
Snow flowers heap in the seams of the tiles, and the cold binds the tips of the trees. My way is already out of step with the times, so it is fitting that sorrow be given to wine and worn away. At the gate of heaven inlaid carriage wheels ring, and in the palace gold plumes are gathered thick. I go alone into the out-of-the-way hills, where only monkeys and cranes come out to meet me.
Interlinear notes 1
是日入關會。三人雪中獨向山寺。因共笑吾儕之與時左也。
On this day men were going in to the Gwanhoe (關會), and only the three of us set off through the snow for a mountain temple. So together we laughed at how out of step with the times we were.