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Matching the Rhymes of Bai Letian's Fifteen Poems Written in Illness — Selling the Horse I Rode (次韻和白樂天病中十五首 賣駱。)次韻和白樂天病中十五首 賣駱。
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.
白沙堤上幾年行。破廏天寒叫數聲。汝與主人俱老矣。相看瘦骨忽傷情。
How many years did we go along the White Sand Embankment (白沙堤)? In the crumbling stable the day is cold, and he cries out a few times. You and your master have grown old together. Looking at each other's wasted bones, I am suddenly sore at heart.
Interlinear notes 1
以傷瘦馬代之。
Put in place of "Grieving for a Gaunt Horse."