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On the Fifth of the Tenth Month Jin Hwa Came and Stayed; We Set Out Wine and Each Composed to a Poem of Su Shi十月五日。陳澕見訪。留宿置酒。用蘇軾詩各賦。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 11 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.
端坐蕭然肖衲僧。愛君閑話更挑燈。人呼白日無雙客。身到靑雲第幾層。况有新詩淸似玉。解敎塵眼冷於氷。少年氣逸應欺我。沈約衣寬漸不勝。
Sitting upright in my bleakness I resemble a monk in his robe, yet loving your idle talk I trim the lamp once more. People call you a traveller without a second in broad daylight — to which tier of the blue clouds has your body climbed? How much more, when your new poems are clear as jade and know how to make dust-filmed eyes colder than ice. Your young vigour is so fine it may well outrun me; like Shen Yue (沈約) my clothes hang loose, and little by little I cannot match you.