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Drinking at Minister Gi's Waterside Pavilion a Gisaeng Happened to Come; Academician Yi Sunu Made a Poem, and I Respectfully Answered It Too飮奇尙書水亭。有妓偶來。李學士純祐作詩。予亦奉和。

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

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.

學士毫端鸞鳳舞。將軍麾下虎熊趨。朱門氣味今方識。國色追陪不待呼。

At the Academician's brush-tip the luan bird and the phoenix dance, and under the General's command tigers and bears go running. Only now do I understand the air of the vermilion gate: the beauty of the kingdom comes to attend before she is even called.

Interlinear notes 1

公以上將軍兼尙書。

The gentleman was Senior General (上將軍) and served at the same time as Minister.