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Matching the Rhymes of Junior Minister Jin's (少卿) Answer to Supernumerary Gentleman Gwon's (員外) 「Thanking Someone for Sending an Azalea Staff」次韻陳少卿和權員外謝人寄躑躅杖詩。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 16 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.
老去衰顔更不春。百金良藥若爲珍。賴君輟贈扶持物。得作人間健步身。
A face grown old and withered does not come to spring again, so what is precious in a fine medicine worth a hundred gold? Happily, thanks to the propping thing that you parted with and gave, I have become, in the world of men, a body that walks stoutly.
Interlinear notes 1
修文殿扈駕次口占。
Chanted on the spot while in attendance upon the king at Sumunjeon (修文殿) Hall.