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I Played Baduk with the Elder Yang Gukjun and Lost, and Since Master Yang Boasted of It in a Poem I Matched His Rhymes與梁丈國峻圍碁見輸。梁以詩誇之。次韻。

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 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.

幸是春天日正遲。直須快戰決雄雌。捷來雖負無雙手。敗去寧忘借一期。欲放王逄橫野火。莫成到漑兀風椎。問君已辦降旗不。此實秦師雪恥時。

Luckily the sun in the spring sky is just now slow, so we must fight it out cleanly and settle which is cock and which is hen. Though my run of wins has lost to a skill without a second, how, having lost, should I forget to borrow one more game? I mean to set the fire that Wang Pang (王逄) set across the fields, so do not turn into the towering wind-club of Dao Gai (到漑). I ask you: have you already made ready the flag of surrender? This is truly the hour for the army of Qin to wash away its shame.

Interlinear notes 1

梁人姓到名漑。

A man of Liang (梁); his surname was Dao (到) and his given name Gai (漑).