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Drinking in Attendance on Chancellor Choe Seon at the Waterside Pavilion of His Youngest Son the Director, and the Chancellor, Having a Poem Made Earlier, Bade Me Answer It There and Then陪崔相國詵。飮季嗣郞中水亭。相國曾有詩。命予卽席奉和。
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.
解綬逍遙一草亭。坐榮三子盡紆靑。壺天側畔千機息。潭鏡中央萬象形。白露先秋凝釦砌。寒漿當夏凍銀甁。問公昔日黃扉樂。能及風軒與月櫺。
Having loosed his seal-cord, he strolls at ease in a thatched pavilion, and sitting there counts it glory that all three sons wear the green seal-cord. Beside the sky inside the jar, a thousand schemes come to rest; in the middle of the pond's mirror, ten thousand shapes shimmer. White dew congeals on the jade steps ahead of autumn, and cold juice freezes in the silver flask in summer. I ask: could the pleasure of the yellow gate in my lord's former days reach this windy hall and these moonlit lattices?
Interlinear notes 1
時相國致仕。
At that time the Chancellor had retired from office.