Matching the Rhymes of the Poem on the Rhyme of the Word "Chin" (親) Sent in Reply by Remonstrance Officer Yi, Who Was at the Gathering That Day次韻其日座客李諫議和親字韻詩見寄

For calling friends to a drinking party, how could there be no one? Yet I drew in only an old friend of the golden-orchid (金蘭) bond. Long have we drunk in the clear wind, so our friendship runs deep; do not resent the bright moon for coming without reason. How grateful I am that the general of the poetry circles of our day became a guest at the feast of my disciples. Into jade cups we pour, cup after cup, wine like the sunset glow, and on jewelled hairpins dew-laden flowers are thrust full, as though it were spring. Though the clappers have finished and fallen, I let them be struck still, and the pomegranate skirts whose dance is done I set turning again. The trays and mats of these graduates are ample enough as they are, so why are this old man's feeling and delight so new? How grateful I am that you took pains to follow a crowd that feigns madness, forgetting on this day that you are a minister of the remonstrance office. Then you sent a clear poem besides, speaking of feeling in its every turn, and sadly I think of the old days, and tears fall again and again.

You, sir, and I are both men who will not be bound, and that year, when our eyes met, we resolved at once to be close friends. Whetting each other on virtue, we learned how a friend profits one; our cherished aims matched of themselves, and needed no go-between. You are younger than I, so it would be fitting to take you as a younger brother, but in righteousness you deserve to be honoured and treated as a guest. In Jajeongbang (紫井坊) we drank as though mad, and in Hongnang's (紅娘) lane we sought out spring in our cups. Do not sigh that the colour of our faces has changed before we knew it; rather count how many times the years have come round. Our hearts, like glue and lacquer, hold firm and are still as of old, and this white hair like snow and frost did not turn white only now. Your son, too, has become a scholar of my school, and in days to come he will surely be a minister greatly used. Looking back over a lifetime, there is not one thing to regret; I ask only that you take up the wine cask and come and go often.