Yu Gyeonghyeon (敬玄), Grand Remonstrator (大諫), Called His Colleagues to Drink, Brought Out a Crystal Cup He Kept, and Asked Me to Sing of It庾大諫敬玄邀飮同寮。出所蓄水精杯。請予賦之。
庾公好客傾一時。邀致郞官自鳳池。初將小爵淺淺斟。半酣呼出水精巵。中有鵝黃全透體。見之不似在杯底。炯如仙掌零露盈。淨若方諸明水貯。又如溪上氷微拆。漾漾波紋搖翠色。自疑在手易消融。提挈不敢留頃刻。我恐海若馮夷日千戲。水中幻怪眞駭矣。忽掬霜濤蹙作團。須臾凝成玉肌理。狂風吹出落江沙。一堆片雪委靑莎。海客一見袖而歸。日謀備用宜如何。碎作數珠眞可惜。琢爲睡枕猶未適。千磨百鍊作爲杯。瑩滑尤堪酌香碧。靈物那宜俗所蓄。苟非其人秪自瀆。六丁奪向君家餉。除却君賢安所屬。又恐洞天王府琉璃觴。貯以千年不死之瓊漿。天欲令君壽與天地畢。勑遣仙娥來勸嘗。餘膏又及同舍翁。欲共我輩顔還童。王烈胡爲獨啜石中髓不與嵇康同。公乎公乎善自保。有酒常將此杯倒。日月安能使我老。
Lord Yu loves guests and has inclined the fame of an age toward him, and he summoned the officials to come from the Phoenix Pool (鳳池). At first he poured shallowly into small cups, but when we were half drunk he called for the crystal cup to be brought out. Within it the goose-yellow wine lit up the whole body of it, so that even as one looked it seemed not to be at the bottom of the cup. Its brightness was as though dew filled an immortal's palm; its clearness as though bright water were held in a moon-mirror (方諸); and again as though the ice on a stream had cracked a little, with the rippling grain of the water shaking its green light. Holding it, one doubts of oneself that it will easily melt, and once lifted dares not keep hold of it even for a moment. I fear that Haeyak (海若) and Pungi (馮夷) play a thousand tricks each day: the sorcery and strangeness within the water are truly astonishing. Suddenly they scooped up the frosted wave and pressed it into a lump, and in an instant it congealed and formed a flesh like jade. A mad wind blew it out and dropped it on the river sand, and a single heap of flaked snow lay upon the blue sedge. A traveler by the sea saw it once and put it in his sleeve and came home, and day after day plotted to what use he might put it. To break it up and make prayer beads of it would be truly a pity; to carve it into a pillow for sleeping would also be unfitting. Grinding it a thousand times and polishing it a hundred, he made it a cup, so glossy and smooth that it is the fitter for pouring fragrant wine. How should a vulgar man keep a numinous thing? If he is not the right man, he only defiles himself with it. The Six Spirits (六丁) seized it and sent it to your house: apart from your worth, where should it attach itself? And again I fear: in the glass cup of the Royal Mansion of the Grotto Heaven (洞天王府) they hold the jade-like gruel that does not die for a thousand years, and Heaven, to have your span of life end together with heaven and earth, has it commanded an immortal maiden to send it and press you to taste? And that the remaining richness reaches even an old man of one office, so that together with our company our faces may turn back to childhood? Why did Wang Ryeol (王烈) alone drink the marrow within the stone and not share it with Hyegang (嵇康)? My lord, my lord, keep yourself well. When there is wine, always tip up this cup. How should even the sun and moon make me old?
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時予爲左諫議。庾爲右。
At that time I was Left Remonstrator (左諫議) and Lord Yu was Right Remonstrator.