Matching the Rhymes of the Poems by Academician Yi, Vice Minister (侍郞) Gal, and Director (郞中) Im Answering "Singing of the White" (次韻李學士葛侍郞林郞中和詠白詩。)次韻李學士葛侍郞林郞中和詠白詩。
狎鷗聞海客。相鶴有仙經。幸與鵠同狀。莫隨蠅變形。近依墻面堊。遠及海脣汀。大可爲雲布。微還作霰零。秦尋誰擅將。唐問孰鍾星。河步凌波韈。亭張卧雪屛。笏光朝未退。窓色醉方醒。懸瀑飛廬岳。驚濤壯洞庭。濃肌浴始罷。粲齒笑難停。爲谷言堪佩。存機誡亦銘。孤標歸鷺毳。閑態入鷴翎。趙璧是宗屬。蜀綿眞典刑。玉京開上界。銀闕聳東溟。陰得昇虛魄。陽資掛曜靈。梅鮮非剪素。氷潔豈礲硎。愛見繰絲濯。生憎裂帛聽。斥華裁布幔。尙素碎金甁。我亦將還質。身猶解紫靑。
I hear the tale of the seaside man who was friends with the gulls, and the way of judging cranes is in the books of the immortals. Happily it has the same look as the swan, so let it not change its shape after the fly. Near at hand it leans on the white clay plastered on the wall, and far off it reaches to the shoals beside the sea. Large, it becomes cloud and spreads out; small, it becomes grains of sleet and scatters down. In Qin (秦), who took the place of general? In Tang (唐), who gathered the force of the stars? Socks that walk on water ride over the waves, and what is spread in the pavilion is a screen lying in the snow. The sheen of the tablet (笏) shines before the audience is withdrawn from, and drunk on the light at the window one has only just come awake. The hanging waterfall flies at Mount Lu (廬山), and the startled waves are grand on Lake Dongting (洞庭湖). Rich skin has just finished its bathing, and bright teeth find it hard to stop laughing. The saying "Become a valley" is worth wearing at one's belt, and the warning "Keep no contrivance" is worth engraving as well. The lone mark goes back to the egret's down, and the idle bearing has entered the plumes of the silver pheasant (白鷴). The jade of Zhao (趙) is of one kindred with it, and the floss of Shu (蜀) is truly its model. The Jade Capital (玉京) opens the upper world, and the Silver Gate-Tower (銀闕) rises in the eastern sea. In shade it gains the soul that climbs into the void, and in sunlight it is beholden to the sun hung in the sky. The plum's beauty is no white silk cut to shape, and how should the ice's clarity be a thing ground on a whetstone? I love to watch the reeling and rinsing of silk thread, and I hate to hear the sound of silk being torn. Putting splendor away, I make my curtains of hemp cloth; honoring the white, I break the golden bottle. I too would return to the plain substance, and my body has now untied the purple and the green seal-cords.
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百全，
Baekjeon (百全),
南成，
Namseong (南成),
成榦
Seonggan (成榦)
莊子五機。心存乎胷中。則純白不備。
These are the five contrivances in the Zhuangzi (莊子). If contrivance remains within the breast, pure whiteness is not complete.
時乞退故云。
At that time he was begging to retire, and so he spoke thus.