Answering in the Same Rhymes a Poem Sent by the Monk Donyu (敦裕), Abbot of Seobaeksa (西伯寺)次韻和西伯寺住老敦裕師見寄。
不是皇恩雨露疏。煙霞高想自耽幽。須知紫闥催徵召。休戀靑山久滯留。遁世眞人甘屛迹。趨時新進競昂頭。象王他日來騰踏。狐鼠餘腥掃地收。莫怪長安鯉信疏。俗音那到水雲幽。巖堂煙月棲身穩。京輦風塵戀祿留。道韻想君氷入骨。宦遊憐我雪蒙頭。掛冠何日攀高躅。六尺殘骸老可收。
It is not that the rain and dew of the king's grace were sparse; it is that your lofty mind, longing for mist and sunset glow, delighted of itself in seclusion. You should know that the vermilion palace is pressing its summons — do not linger long out of longing for the green mountains. The true man who has fled the world counts it sweet to hide his traces, while the new men who follow the times vie in lifting up their heads. When the Elephant King comes one day and treads this way, he will sweep the ground and gather up the leftover stench of foxes and rats. Do not think it strange that carp letters are rare from the capital — how should vulgar sounds reach the seclusion of water and cloud? In the mist and moon of your rock-built house it is easy to rest the body, while I linger in the wind and dust of the capital, longing for my salary. As for the savor of the Way, I suppose the ice has entered your very bones; and I, who serve in office, am pitiable with snow upon my head. On what day shall I hang up my cap and follow your lofty traces, and gather in, even in old age, this body of six feet and a little more?
Interlinear notes 3
二首○使者立門督促。亦筆和寄。
Two poems. The messenger stood at the gate and pressed me, so I answered and sent this too as the brush went.
師被命常在內道場。今舍歸本寺故云。
The monk, having received a command, had always been at the Inner Chapel (內道場), and now he had left it and returned to his home temple; hence these words.
來詩。有及後進皆升僧門高品。故云。
In the poem he sent there were words saying that those who came after him had all risen to high rank in the monastic examinations; hence these words.