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Following the Rhymes to Answer in Attendance Administrator Choe Dang's Poem on Living at Leisure After Retiring from Office依韻奉和崔平章讜致仕閑適
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.
丹心白髮帝王師。閑夢時時到紫微。馬識懸車方退伏。鳥知分飯不驚飛。眼前二子紆朱綬。膝下諸孫弄綵衣。賴有樂天遺頌在。有時吟味益忘機。
A red heart and white hair — a teacher of kings; his idle dreams reach now and then to the Ziwei Palace. The horse knows the cart is hung up and settles at last to rest; the birds know their rice is shared out and do not startle away. Before his eyes two sons wear the crimson seal-cord; below his knees a crowd of grandsons play in motley coats. Happily there is the encomium (頌) left behind by Bai Letian, which he chants and savors now and then, forgetting schemes the more.
Interlinear notes 1
公愛白公布袋頌。日夕吟味。故云。
My lord loved Bai Letian's "Encomium on the Cloth Sack" (布袋頌) and chanted and savored it day and night, and so this was said.