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Matching the Rhymes of Chancellor Choe Seon's Poem Thanking Joint Manager of Affairs Gi for the Gift of a Warming Stone次韻崔相國詵謝奇平章贈熨石
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.
銅壺滴漏隔窓間。暫借餘溫度夜分。辟破寒威犀尙愧。暖留殘夢蝶猶欣。尙餘荀令香烟惹。好倩羊公炭屑熏。一片貞珉賭珠玉。奇公叙謝固宜勤。
The dripping of the bronze water-clock is heard through the window, and borrowing a little lingering warmth I pass the night. At breaking the cold's authority even the rhinoceros is put to shame, and as warmth lingers in a remaining dream even the butterfly rejoices. The incense smoke of Director Xun (荀令) still curls about, and one might borrow Lord Yang's (羊公) charcoal powder to warm oneself. With a single piece of hard stone he has hooked pearls and jade, so it is right indeed that Lord Gi's thanks should be so earnest.