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Chanting Spring Snow at the House of Son, Chief of the Academy of Letters — Using an Ancient Poet's Rhymes孫翰長家詠春雪。用古人韻。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 13 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.
灑遍庭林壓綠叢。寒暄未可信天翁。防他江上南來鷰。悔殺雲間北去鴻。梅塢飄將花滿地。柳堤飛趁絮隨風。但嫌時令乖和氣。豈害吾儕爛醉中。
Sprinkled all over garden and grove, it presses down the green clumps; in cold and warmth not even the Old Man of Heaven can be trusted. It blocks the swallows coming from the south over the river and makes the geese going north among the clouds bitterly regret it. On the plum knoll it blows until blossoms fill the ground; on the willow bank it flies, and willow down chases after the wind. I only resent that the season has gone against the mild air — but what harm is it to our getting thoroughly drunk?