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The Next Day, Using These Same Rhymes, I Sent Word to Academician Pak to Borrow a Gayageum明日用此韻。寄朴學士借伽倻琴。
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.
閑門永日不堪過。空聽園畦兩部蛙。見借秦箏言已重。請君兼寄弄彈歌。
At my idle gate the long days are hard to bear out, and idly I hear only the music of frogs croaking in two bands along the field banks. Your word that you would lend me the Qin (秦) zither already weighs heavy, so I beg you, send the tunes to play on it along with it.
Interlinear notes 3
加耶琴。秦箏類也。
The gayageum is of the same kind as the Qin (秦) zither.
前日蒙見借之言。
In days past I received his word that he would lend it.
弄一作叶。
In some copies "nong" (弄) appears as "hyeop" (叶).