Matching the Rhymes of the Poem in Which Gim Yanggyeong (金良鏡), Royal Secretary, Answered Jin Sik (陳湜), Surveillance Commissioner次韻金承宣良鏡和陳按廉湜

For five years in the Western Wing (西掖) you spread out the king's edicts, and how many springs besides have you served as an adviser in the army tent? The red Hansu (漢水) suddenly rises, and the road for coming back is level; white sand has been heaped up, and the embankment for walking is new. Your merit is high in the north of the frontier, so your office ought to be noble; your person stands before the king, so you may well lay the Way before him. If, face to face with the king, he should ask you in some quiet place, do not forget one needy man of your own years.

The ministers and councillors who fill the court have charge of the edicts, but who will wet the needy valley with a spring of rain and dew? The wayfarer of Chu (楚), come into banishment, eats chrysanthemums, and they are bitter; and after Master Yu (劉郞) went away, the peach trees planted are new. My feeling is deep and I long for the palace, so it is hard to go back to Yeongcheon; in name of office I have a district to myself, but in truth my condition is to be in Chen (陳). Had there not been a friend who knows me, like a blue cloud, by now I should already have become a man of the green hills.

When I withdraw from the office there is forlornly one white kerchief, and in this needy countryside the cold days are longer than the spring. The feeling of the world and the state of office are thin as autumn clouds, and on my sick temples and sorrowing beard the snow of the last month is new. This body like dried meat would carry off what breath is left; what inch of heart have cold ashes to lay before anyone? Looking up to heaven I wail aloud, and my look is so forlorn that I do not seem a man who wears the seal-cord in the Yellow Hall (黃堂).