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Matching the rhymes of Ouyang the Twenty-ninth, who answered the preceding poem and sent it to me次韻歐陽二十九和前詩見寄
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.
家在金鼇頂上瀛。神仙風骨本來淸。紅塵放謫韜光彩。丹籙分明記姓名。詞麗春花敷錦萼。節貞寒竹卓琅莖。一篇贈我眞奇絶。流入韶鈞中五聲。
Your house is on a sea isle atop the golden turtle's head, so your immortal's bearing and frame are clear from the first. Banished to the world of red dust you have hidden your light, yet on the crimson register your surname and name are plainly set down. Your writing is fair, as if spring blossoms spread out brocade calyxes; your integrity is straight, as cold bamboo stands tall with a jade stem. You gave me a single piece, truly strange and surpassing, flowing into the airs of Shao (韶) and Juntian (鈞天) and fitting the five notes.
Interlinear notes 1
前詩在集第三後卷。
The preceding poem is in the third volume of the Later Collection.