Again, Presented to Ouyang the Twenty-ninth in Another Rhyme又以別韻。贈歐陽二十九。
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 · 3 passages · 84 Chinese characters · reading time 0.9 min
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.
不作朝臣作散人。要爲天地自由身。賴君萍泛元無繫。遐若三韓覩瑞獜。
Not becoming a servant of the court, you became a man of leisure,
meaning to be a free body between heaven and earth.
Luckily you drift like duckweed and were never tied anywhere,
so that far off in Samhan too we have come to see an auspicious qilin.
六一雲孫世襲馨。想瞻氷玉映人淸。早知四海皆兄弟。地別何曾隔信情。
A distant descendant of Liuyi Jushi (六一居士) has carried the fragrance on from age to age,
and I think that ice and jade shine upon men and are clear.
I knew early that all within the four seas are brothers,
so though our lands differ, how should that block a trusting affection?
問君何事索吾詩。多是編苫拙速爲。假若因風落中土。牛童馬卒尙應欺。
I ask: on what account do you seek out my poems?
For the most part they were made clumsily and fast, as one weaves a straw mat.
If they were carried on the wind and fell on the soil of China,
even the boy who herds oxen and the servant who drives horses would look down on them.
Interlinear notes 1
自言本國求予詩。因索之。予不許。
He said of himself that he was seeking my poems for his own country and asked for them, but I did not grant it.