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Matching the Rhymes of O Mongnim (吳夢林), Rectifier of Omissions, Who Consoled Me with a Poem次韻吳拾遺夢林。以詩見唁。
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.
1The first poem
雀羅門外無來客。雞樹垣前憶舊遊。諫職久癏宜見擯。碧霞靑嶂好歸休。
Outside my gate, where a sparrow net might be spread, no guest comes, and I think of the old outings before the wall of the Fowl Tree (雞樹). I long left the duty of a remonstrating officer empty, so my dismissal is fitting, and it would be well to go back and rest among the blue haze and the green peaks.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
There are two poems.
2The second poem
失路忽從天上落。登瀛翻似夢中遊。一言見訊千金重。三黜忘懷萬事休。
Having lost my way, all at once I fell from above the sky, and my climbing up to Yeongju (瀛洲) seems rather an outing within a dream. One word of greeting is as weighty as a thousand gold pieces, and forgetting that I was driven out three times, all things are done with.