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Yu Chunggi, My Examination Classmate, Answered; Matching His Rhymes I Reply劉同年冲祺見和。次韻答之。

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 · 40 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 9 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.

子語重金玉。臨行吟復吟。大山寧倒地。壯士不移心。綠蟻浮連海。靑蛾笑直金。此時斟我意。訓誡不須深。

Your words are weightier than gold and jade, and as I leave I chant them over and over. Sooner shall the great mountain topple to the ground than a stout man shift his heart. Wine with green ants afloat floats on, joined to the sea, and the smile of green brows is worth its weight in gold. At this time, take the measure of my intent: there is no need for your admonition to go deep.

Interlinear notes 1

君詩有酒色之誡。

His poem had words warning against wine and women.