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Elder Hun Asks for a Poem, and Again I Use the Earlier Rhymes訓長老乞詩。又用前韻。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 8 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.
彈指相逢恨見遲。恰如甕裡閱圖時。木鵝卵破方生翼。石女兒嬌更媚姿。山字肩高成冷坐。稻畦衲短稱淸肌。他年若許參吹布。會覓飛窠訪樹枝。
Meeting in the snap of a finger, we regret that we have seen each other late. It is just like the time of looking at a picture inside a jar. The wooden goose breaks its egg and now grows wings; the stone woman's child is winsome and lovelier still. Shoulders high as the character san (山), he sits in the cold; his robe, like paddy furrows, is short and suits his clear skin. If in days to come you allow me to take part in chwipo (吹布), I shall surely seek the flying nest and look for the tree's branch.