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The Academician Replied, and Came in Person to Give Me a Poem; Matching the Rhymes Again, I Respectfully Answer (學士見和。親訪見贈。復次韻奉答。)學士見和。親訪見贈。復次韻奉答。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 2 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.
阻得西山五色丸。童顔一去得還難。莫言此果眞仙物。未遽輕身只解乾。
I have not got the five-colored elixir pellet of the Western Mountain, and a child's face, once gone, is hard to bring back. Do not say that this fruit is truly a thing of the immortals: it cannot make the body light; it only wets a parched throat.
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來詩云。仙菓廻迎九轉丸。
The poem he sent said, "The immortals' fruit meets and brings back the elixir refined nine times over."
病中光景幾環迴。間闊無由得話懷。聊遣木奴通略訊。反携酒聖訪殘骸。
How many times has the round of the seasons turned while I lay ill? Long parted, I had no way to unburden what I felt. I sent some mandarins for the moment, to pass on a rough word of greeting, and you came instead, wine in hand, to call on this withered frame.
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是日携酒。
He came that day with wine.