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The Two Gentlemen Replied, So I Made Another兩君見和又作
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 5 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.
何處赴佳期。步繞園籬。欣逢二老始傾巵。一曲俚歌猶未聽。何况蛾眉。人壽幾多時。有似花枝。紅潮借臉酒全欺。豈必秋來悲逝景。暮是朝非。
Where shall I go to seek a good appointed meeting? On foot I go all round the garden hedge Gladly meeting two old men, I tip the cup at last Not one common song have I yet heard much less a beauty How long is a man's life? It is like a flowering branch The red that has borrowed my cheeks is wholly the wine's deceiving Why must autumn come before we mourn the fading light? What was right in the evening is not so in the morning