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Matching the Rhymes of Bai Letian's Fifteen Poems Written in Illness — Answering the Monk Han, Who Asked After My Illness (次韻和白樂天病中十五首 答閑上人問病。)次韻和白樂天病中十五首 答閑上人問病。
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.
愁入眉頭鎖不開。只緣無客挈壺來。此身微恙何須問。七十衰羸未是灾。
Care has entered the tips of my brows and stays locked there, not loosening, and that is only because no guest comes carrying a wine jug. There is no need to ask after this body's small ailment: to be worn and wasted at seventy is no calamity.
Interlinear notes 1
以答客問病代之。
Put in place of "Answering a Guest Who Asked After My Illness."