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Given to the Seon Master Hui (希禪師)贈希禪師
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 1 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.
相逢未及問寒溫。笑道狂奴舊態存。一別五年無限思。請看雙鬢雪初繁。
Before we had even asked after each other's health on meeting, he said with a laugh, "The mad fellow keeps his old ways still." Five years since we parted that once, and my longing had no end; look — at both temples the snow has only just grown thick.
Interlinear notes 1
予於天壽方丈。常醉狂。師今戱之。
In the abbot's quarters at Cheonsu Temple (天壽寺) I was always drunk and behaved as though mad. The master is now making fun of that.