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The Disciples of Two Years of Yi Baeksun (李百順), Chancellor of the National Academy, Held a Gathering to Console Their Retired Presiding Examiner and Welcomed His Younger Brother, Academician Baekjeon (百全), as Well; I Too Attended, and After Growing Drunk Ran My Brush and Showed It to the Company李大司成百順兩年門生等。設筵慰座主致政。幷邀公之舍弟學士百全。予亦參赴。醉後走筆。示座上云。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

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.

李公兄弟似珠聯。迭作司成迭試賢。棣萼門生邀棣萼。史家應作美談傳。

The Yi brothers are like pearls strung on one thread, each in turn becoming Chancellor, each in turn choosing the worthy. Disciples like hawthorn blossoms welcome brothers like hawthorn blossoms — the historians will surely hand it down as a fine tale.

Interlinear notes 3

兄以大司成掌試。弟亦爾故云。

The elder brother presided over the examination as Chancellor of the National Academy, and the younger did so as well; hence this was said.

謂公之兩門生。

This refers to the gentleman's disciples of two years.

謂兩公兄弟。

This refers to the two gentlemen, the brothers.