Academy Registrar Seo Having Answered in Kind, I Match His Rhymes Again and Reply徐學錄見和。復次韻答之。
巖電平時爛不眩。讀書僅至三千卷。閉門獨下董生帷。縱有園葵曾不眄。邇來陸沈困於蟻。百端愁惱長如醉。每見紅裠眼輒開。千呼萬喚看百媚。獻花昨日人似玉。佯怒故將雙袖撲。有葉無花何足嗔。紫薇空恨成陰綠。無絃琴上樂可寓。須信陶潛襟韻古。已失花黏砑帽滑。何須水濺羅衣汙。今年春去花殘了。明年春迴花復笑。問爾重來折贈無。雖復花空何必誚。但憑戱謔展我眉。非必眷眷遮奴兒。不有囁嚅當日作。豈觀華縟先生詩。我家有酒醨且薄。有意邀君開小酌。雖無低唱侑歡人。一吟一詠聊相酢。君不見鶯啼鷰舞深宮裏。美人欠伸初睡起。請君往續麗人行。不用丹靑寫珠翠。
Eyes like lightning under a rock shine even at ordinary times and are never confused, and the books he has read come barely to three thousand volumes. He shuts his gate and alone lets down the curtain of Dong Sheng (董生), and though there were mallows in the garden he never once turned to look. Of late, drowned on dry land, he is worn out by the ants, and with every sorrow and pain he is always as if drunk. Whenever he sees a red skirt his eyes open wide at once, and calling a thousand times, ten thousand times, he sees every kind of beauty. Yesterday the one who offered the flowers was like jade, and I feigned anger and shook out both my sleeves. Why be angry that there were leaves and no flower? The crape myrtle grieves the idle green that makes only shade. Even in a stringless geomungo one may lodge one's pleasure, and one must trust the breadth of heart and the antique air of Tao Qian. Since I have already lost the smooth cap for pinning a flower, how should the water splash up and soil my silk robe? This year the spring has gone and the flowers have withered, but when next spring comes round the flowers will laugh again. I ask you: will you come again and break me off a branch? And though there be no flower again, why must I blame you? I only lean upon the teasing to unknit my brows; it is not that I must cling to that girl. Had there been no piece written haltingly that day, how should I have seen the Master's splendid poem? There is wine in my house, but it is thin and weak besides. Still I mean to welcome you and open a modest gathering. Though there be none to sing low and help our pleasure along, we shall recite once and sing once and so, for what it is worth, repay each other. Have you not seen, deep within the palace where orioles sing and swallows dance, a beauty stretching herself and just risen from sleep? I beg you, go and carry on the 「Song of the Lovely Women (麗人行)」; there is no need to paint the pearls and the kingfisher-green in color.