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Yi Cheonggyeong Came to Visit; We Drank a Little and Composed Together to the Rhymes of a Poem by Liu Yuxi李淸卿見訪小酌。用劉禹錫詩韻同賦。
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.
詩格高於柳柳州。靑衫曾見幕中牧。官班猶阻陪龍尾。檄手徒勞守鹿頭。三載別來頭半白。一樽相對淚空流。憑君且莫惺惺去。幸是黃花泛酒秋。
Your poetry stands higher in rank than Liu Zongyuan of Liuzhou (柳州), and in a blue gown I once saw in you the Du Mu (杜牧) of a general's camp. Your rank of office is still barred from attending at the Dragon Tail (龍尾), and with your hand for proclamations you only toiled at guarding Lutou (鹿頭). Three years since we parted, and my hair is half white; facing a single jar of wine, my tears flow for nothing. I beg of you: do not go away still clear-headed. Luckily it is the autumn for floating yellow chrysanthemums on the wine.
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君往年爲討賊兵馬書記。故云。
The year before he had become a military secretary for the putting down of bandits, and so it was said thus.