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Matching the Rhymes of Academician Yi's Poem Answering "Sending an Almanac" (次韻李學士見和寄曆詩)次韻李學士見和寄曆詩

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 · 2 passages · 40 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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.

依然十二辰。各管萬千人。愷悌神所勞。知公壽萃身。

The twelve earthly branches are as ever, and each takes charge of ten million people. The gentle and glad are helped by the spirits, so I know that long life has gathered in you, sir.

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百全

Academician Yi's name was Baekjeon (百全).

我齒迫相逐。容毫間幾何。那將一日長。獨享百年多。

My own years follow close on yours, and how much room is there between us for even a single hair? How, because you were born a day earlier, would you enjoy the fullness of a hundred years alone?

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公長我一年。

The gentleman is one year older than I am.