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Again Matching the Rhymes of Chancellor Geum's 「Written on the Wall」 and Presenting It in Attendance又次琴相國題壁詩韻奉呈

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

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.

借筯奇籌倒子房。琅琅高議激朝堂。房標第四何須訂。門下今年拜侍郎。

Borrowing chopsticks you set forth a strange plan and overthrow Zhang Zifang; your ringing, lofty discourse stirs the hall of court. Why reckon up your having marked yourself the fourth room (房)? In the Chancellery this year you have been appointed Vice Minister.

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相國詩。有第四房之語。

In the Chancellor's poem there were the words 「the fourth room.」

公時爲參政。

The Duke was at that time Assistant Manager of Affairs of State.