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Again, Matching the Rhymes of Library Director Jeong's Poem on Floating Chrysanthemums at Mr. Cha's House After the Twentieth of the Ninth Month又次韻丁秘監於車君家九月二十日後泛菊
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.
黃菊含情似有須。殷勤金蘂不全踈。及迎詩老傾壇奉。莫訝重陽泛酒餘。應是晚芳齊綻後。却逢新釀撥開初。問君把盞方吟賞。能記殘翁獨塊居。
The yellow chrysanthemums seem to hold a feeling and to be waiting their quiet golden stamens not thin anywhere Welcoming the old poet, you tip the jar and offer it up so do not wonder at floating them in wine after the Double Ninth After the late flowering has burst open all together it has rather met the first broaching of newly brewed wine I ask you: when you hold the cup and are just chanting and making merry can you remember a worn old man living all alone?
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至十月見之方和。
He saw it only when the tenth month had come, and then replied.