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Congratulating the Monk Yu (裕) on His Rise to Chief Seat (首座)賀裕師拜首座
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 17 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.
狐鼠紛紛不足論。喜公方拜席端尊。象王騰踏吾曾道。莫是天公借舌言。
Of the confusion of foxes and rats there is no need to speak; I am glad that you have now risen to a high seat. That the Elephant King would tread this way, I said long ago — perhaps it was Heaven that borrowed my tongue to say it.
Interlinear notes 2
前和公詩有之。
There were such words when I answered your poem before.
此亦前詩所言。
This too was said in the earlier poem.