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Yu Having Answered in Kind and Come to Visit, I Set Out Wine and Reply Again兪公見和訪來。因置酒復答。
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.
藍換雪髥愁曉鏡。酣顔仗得侔紅杏。簾卷半窓閑榻靜。喃喃話到醉還腥。兼酒與肴盈器皿。添燈夜席詩開令。三杯淺酌交湯茗。慙愧吾腸詞竭罄。衫生皺任坐欹整。談劇未輕拋好景。
The indigo has turned to a beard like snow, and the dawn mirror is full of care, yet leaning on a ripened flush of face I match myself with the red apricot. At the window with the blind half rolled the idle couch is still, and chattering talk, reaching drunkenness, turns rank again. Wine and relishes together we filled the vessels full, and at the night's seat, with lamps added, we opened a drinking-law in verse. Three shallow cups we drank, mixed with tea, and shame on me, in whose bowels the words have all run dry. Though creases formed in my jacket I left it leaning as I sat, for the talk ran deep and I could not lightly throw away so fine a scene.