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Again Matching the Rhymes of the Poem Written on the Scroll, and Presenting It又次書蔟子詩韻贈之

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

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.

身如匹素付人裁。世上何時笑口開。星散萬家無處去。天遊一室訪公來。閑雲傍檻輕縈帶。微雪黏枝乍學梅。莫導遠公元不飮。尙容陶令勸含杯。

My body is like a bolt of white silk left to another's cutting; in this world, when shall I open a smiling mouth? Among ten thousand houses scattered like stars I have nowhere to go, so I came to seek you in the one room that roams free as the sky. Idle clouds beside the railing wind lightly about it like a sash, fine snow clinging to the branches briefly learns to be plum blossom. Do not say that Master Yuan (遠公) never drank wine: even he allowed Tao Yuanming to press a cup upon him.