Matching the rhymes of Academicians Yi Su (李需) and Im Seonggan (林成幹), who answered the earlier poem — Their Excellencies both answered my poem and came in person to visit me, and their words were each so truly fine that before I knew it I laughed till I nearly fell over. Only they did not keep to the brocade-weave form; how could that have been a careless oversight? So again I answer in that form with two poems and present them次韻李公需，林公成幹兩學士見和前詩。伏蒙兩君閤下和予詩。親訪見贈。詞各信美。不覺絶倒。但不循織錦體耳。豈偶忽之耶。復以其體和二首奉呈。
提携厚意閱詩看。問訊通勤慰散官。低唱聽期斟酒碧。少年留欲鍊砂丹。畦枯灌幸踈泉沼。樹茂攀嫌罥帽冠。齊復亂齊堆帙理。勝還饒勝鬪碁觀。題緘斷久人微信。稍俸霑仍室洽歡。西北東馳狂息竟。栖栖舊質老尫殘。殘身養性野廬栖。地卜深巖翠負西。歡到爛酣添逸思。嘯餘淸詠播狂題。觀耽雅什韓劉柳。閱遍閑書宋晉齊。冠落醉忘投寢席。杖搘行倦檢園畦。丹誠誓切猶身負。白髮嗟深但首低。官職此生於分足。看吾自奮一毫提。
With weighty kindness you took my hand and spread out the poems to read Diligently sending word to console an idle officer Listening to soft singing, we set a time to pour the green wine And to hold fast to youth I would decoct cinnabar (丹砂) When the furrows dry, luckily I open the pond and the spring to water them When the trees grow thick and pull at me, I fear they will catch my hat What was in order falls into disorder again, so I set my piled-up books to rights And having won I watch a game of go won once more with room to spare Sealed letters have long ceased, and news of people is scarce Yet a small stipend wets us, and the whole household is content The madness of rushing northwest and east has come at last to an end And the old flustered frame has grown old and frail With the body left me I nurture my nature and nest in a country house Having settled the site, the green of the deep crags turns its back on the west When pleasure ripens through and through, easeful thoughts are added to it And at the end of a whistle I chant clearly and spread wild poem-titles abroad I delight in looking at the trim pieces of Han Yu, Liu Yuxi, and Liu Zongyuan And read widely in the leisurely books of the Song, the Chen, and the Qi Drunk, I forget that my hat has fallen and throw myself onto the bed And when walking with my staff tires me I go and look at the furrows Red was my earnest vow, yet my body betrayed it in the end White-haired, my sighs only deepen, and I merely bow my head Office is more than enough for the lot of this life Look, then, how I rouse myself and lift a single brush
Interlinear notes 4
李侍郞後以迴文二首來贈。
Vice Minister Yi later composed and sent two palindrome poems.
家有小池及泉。
There are a small pond and a spring at my house.
皆致仕之意。
Both refer to having retired from office.
予家負西山。
My house has the western mountain at its back.