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Presented to Ouyang the Twenty-ninth次韻宋朝播禪老寄空空上人 贈歐陽二十九
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 3 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.
邈從千里渡滄瀛。詩韻猶含山水淸。可喜醉翁流遠派。尙敎吾輩飽香名。凌霄玉樹高千丈。瑞世金芝擢九莖。早挹英風難覿面。何時親聽咳餘聲。
Following a thousand li into the distance, you crossed the blue sea, and in the measures of your poems the clearness of hills and streams lingers still. What gladness, that the stream of Zuiweng (醉翁) has branched far off and still lets us be filled full with that fragrant name. The jade tree that pierces heaven stands a thousand fathoms high, and the golden fungus, auspicious to the world, has put up nine stalks. Long since I heard of your flowering bearing, but your face is hard to see; at what time shall I hear your words in person?
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自言永叔十一世孫。
He said of himself that he was the eleventh-generation descendant of Yongshu (永叔).