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Matching the Rhymes of Bai Letian's Fifteen Poems Written in Illness — Presented to Si'an (思黯) at Year's End (次韻和白樂天病中十五首 歲暮呈思黯。)次韻和白樂天病中十五首 歲暮呈思黯。

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 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.

幸訪懸車老大夫。曉寒能飮一盃無。身欹步仄君休笑。已免君門吏挾扶。

Happily you have called on an old grandee who has laid down his office; in the dawn cold, can you take a cup with me? Though my body leans and my steps go crooked, do not laugh at me: I have already been spared being propped up by clerks at the palace gate.

Interlinear notes 3

以曉贈來客代之。

Put in place of "Given to a Guest Who Came at Dawn."

制未下。然已乞退故云。

Leave had not yet been granted, but since he had already asked to retire he spoke so.

漢相蔡義事。

This refers to Cai Yi (蔡義), chancellor of the Han.