Academician Baekjeon, the Gentleman's Younger Brother, Having Answered, I Match the Rhymes Again and Send It to Him公舍弟學士百全見和。復次韻寄之。
1The First
棣華承萼幾多年。賢路雙飛亦宿綠。得道兄煩天帝召。多才君被世人牽。備更赫赫文章地。寧羡區區宰相權。好攝精神長不老。時呼我輩醉平泉。
How many years is it that the hawthorn flowers joined calyx to calyx? That you were born side by side on the worthy road is an old bond too. Your elder brother, who had gained the Way, was troubled by the Heavenly Emperor's summons, while you, of many gifts, were drawn along by the people of the world. You have passed through all the shining posts of letters, so why should you envy the petty power of a chief minister? Gather your spirit well and do not grow old, and from time to time call us and let us get drunk at Pingquan (平泉).
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兄常以不相爲恨。公不厼故云。
His elder brother always regretted not having become Chief Minister, but the gentleman did not; that is why I said so.
公已致仕
The gentleman had already withdrawn from office.
2The Second
憊疾年來發負薪。予病久。臥彌旬朔算時鱗。詩仙忽貺腸中錦。老境驚看意外春。手熟自成詞格峻。語高還契道心眞。唯殘病叟長沈頓。百藥前陳啖若辛。
A wearying illness has lately come on like firewood borne on my back I have been ill a long while. and lying more than ten days and a month I count the scales of the season. The immortal of poetry suddenly gives me the brocade within his bowels, and in old age I look in surprise on an unlooked-for spring. Practised in hand, the rank of the poetry is high of itself, and the words being lofty, they even fit the truth of the mind of the Way. Only this sick old man who is left has long been sunk down, with all sorts of medicines spread out before him, eating as one eats bitter things.
Interlinear notes 1
來詩有性命之辭。
The poem he sent had words about nature and destiny (性命).