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Matching the Rhymes of a Poem Made by Mr. No of My Examination Year, Who Came to Visit Bringing Wine次韻盧同年携酒見訪有詩
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 10 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.
此身如繫不能飛。寂寞張衡詠四思。無賴夕陽還送恨。多情芳草可勝悲。簷間語鷰還留客。枝上啼鸎又喚誰。賴有玉川千日酒。賭他賓客綴珠詩。
This body is as if tethered and cannot fly, and in the stillness I chant Zhang Heng's (張衡) "Poem of the Four Sorrows" (四愁詩). The setting sun, with nothing to lean on, sends regret instead; can the feeling-laden fragrant grass overcome sorrow? The swallows talking under the eaves hold the guest back, and the oriole crying on the branch—whom is it calling now? Happily there is the thousand-day wine of Okcheon (玉川), to wager against those guests' poems strung like beads.