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Answering Again復和

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 · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 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.

多幸江南偶一逢。破衫縫處更期重。奇巖當檻蹲頑豹。逬笋穿簷走稚龍。五斗解醒聞乃祖。三杯通道出吾宗。好尋金洞期同醉。莫憶巫山十二峯。

Great good fortune — that south of the river we should meet by chance just once, and where the torn jacket was sewn we set a time to meet again. A strange rock faces the railing, crouched like a blunt leopard; a shot-up bamboo shoot pierces the eaves, running like a young dragon. That five pecks will cure a man of drink, I heard from your grandfather; that three cups open the Way came forth from my own clan. It is worth setting a time to seek Geumdong (金洞) and be drunk together — do not be thinking of the twelve peaks of Mount Wu (巫山).

Interlinear notes 1

君壯向羅州。故云。

He was setting out boldly for Naju, and so this was said.