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Visiting Seon Elder Eom, Using the Rhymes of the Scroll Poem on the Wall訪嚴禪老。用壁上書簇詩韻。
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.
笑却東華一餉榮。獨披駞褐訪南能。靜中得句堪呈佛。欲寫時呵玉硯氷。
I laugh at the glory of the Donghwa Gate, which is like a single meal, and alone, in a camel-hair hemp robe, go seeking Nanneng (南能). A line got in the midst of stillness is fit to offer to the Buddha, and when I would write it, I breathe on the ice of the jade inkstone.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
Two poems.
石鼎烹茶代酒巵。擁爐圍坐熨寒衣。香畦縈穗靑烟直。橘腦分漿玉露飛。
We boil tea in a stone pot in place of wine cups, and sitting round with the brazier in our arms, we press our cold clothes. In the incense furrow the ears are tangled, and the blue smoke stands straight; and parting the juice from the tangerine's flesh, a jade dew springs out.