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Matching the Rhymes Again, as the Two Gentlemen Replied兩君見和。復次韻。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 4 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.
池盈妄擬成滄海。水渴還疑有沃焦。不是靈虬磻石底。冷中那有氣歊歊。
When the pond fills, I idly fancy it has become a great sea; when the water dries, I wonder instead whether the Okchoseok (沃焦石) is there. Unless there were a divine horned dragon beneath the flat rock, how should steam rise thick and thick out of the cold?
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說文云。歊歊氣出貌。
The Shuowen (說文) says, "Hyohyo (歊歊) is the look of steam rising."
主人詩作癖。未有暫停時。泉水莫誇漲。乾予一硯池。
The master of this house has made a habit of writing poems, and has never stopped even for a moment. Spring water, do not boast of having swelled: you have dried up the one pool of my inkstone.