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Again, thanking him for the gift of a pheasant又謝雉
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.
山城遠餉惠難量。三嗅慙吾義莫當。不必大夫親自射。室人欣得笑何妨。
The kindness of sending it from afar, from the mountain fortress, is hard to measure And I am ashamed I cannot live up to the sense of smelling it three times only There is no need for a grandee to shoot and take it himself So what harm if my wife, getting it, is glad and laughs
Interlinear notes 1
三嗅 — This is "三嗅而作" in the Xiangdang chapter of the Analects. Some read it as "the pheasant cried three times and flew away." — translator