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Again Answering Letian's "Mind and Body Ask and Answer" — The Body Answers the Mind (又和樂天心身問答 身報心)又和樂天心身問答 身報心

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.

多幸如今作爾宮。知應捨去六天中。凌烟閣上如圖像。我獨留眞自擅功。

How fortunate that until now I have been your house, yet I know that before long you will cast me off and go into the midst of the six heavens. If portraits are painted up in the Lingyan Pavilion (凌烟閣), it is I alone who will leave the true likeness behind and take the merit for myself.

Interlinear notes 1

如今 — This may also be read as "now." — Translator