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Matching the Rhymes of Bai Letian's Fifteen Poems Written in Illness — Seeing Off a Guest Bound for Mount Song (次韻和白樂天病中十五首 送嵩客。)次韻和白樂天病中十五首 送嵩客。
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.
適來京輦似前期。千里之南又訪誰。此去能傳消息否。天涯生死杳難知。
Your coming to the capital seemed as though promised beforehand, and now, going a thousand li south, whom will you seek out next? Once you have gone this time, will word be able to pass? At the sky's edge, living and dying are far off and hard to know.
Interlinear notes 2
以送族僧之南代之。
Put in place of "Seeing Off a Monk of the Household Bound South."
甲午年。自南來寓予家。今方還。
In the gabo (甲午) year he came from the south and lodged at my house, and only now is he returning.