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Matching the Rhymes of Chancellor Choe Hongyun's Poem Answering Chancellor Geum's 「Written on the Wall of the Secretariat」, and Presenting It in Attendance to the Two Chancellors次韻崔相國洪胤和琴相國題中書壁上之什。奉呈兩相。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 14 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.
才兼虎庫與文房。步驟雙高粉省堂。千古台階元未見。一時兩相甲枝郞。
Your talents join the armory and the hall of letters, and your steps, lofty side by side, have mounted to the Powdered Secretariat Hall (粉省堂). In a thousand ages this was never seen in the seat of chief ministers: that at one time both chief ministers should be men who placed first in the examination.
Interlinear notes 1
二相皆狀元及第。
Both chief ministers placed first in the examination.