Matching the Rhymes of a Poem Sent in Reply by Yi, My Examination Classmate次韻李同年見和來贈
1First Poem
才豪曾被柳公容。𧪈𧪈如吾亦見籠。蹇足勉追千里騁。頑金欣忝一爐融。我留塵世牽浮䆠。子去田居號遁翁。南畝雨晴苗秀綠。西垣風澹藥翻紅。謾勞淸夢飛天外。豈意芳蹤到洛中。問爾閑身誰擺撼。邈從炎徼倐迴東。
Outstanding in talent, you were early taken into the favor of Lord Yu (柳公), and even a trifling man like me was gathered into his embrace. With a lame foot I strained to follow a horse that runs a thousand li; dull iron melted in one furnace — a joy, and a shame. I linger in this dusty world, drawn on by a hollow office, while you have gone back to your fields and call yourself the Hermit Elder (遁翁). Rain has cleared on the southern ridges, and the sprouts stand green and fine; the wind is mild at the western wall, and the peonies toss their red. Idly my clear dreams alone went flying beyond the sky — how could I have known your fragrant traces would reach the capital? I ask: who shook you from your life of leisure, that from the far southern frontier you have suddenly turned eastward home?
Interlinear notes 2
二首
Two poems.
俱出柳公門下。故云。
Both of us came from the school of Lord Yu, and so he says this.
2Second Poem
子曾於世勿求容。應恐鸞凰窘鶴籠。便去田園追靖節。終敎邑里化陳融。偶然踏却人間路。猶是飄然物外翁。縱有兒孫衣弄綵。柰無妾媵面粧紅。鄕心揔寄千山外。旅夢偏淸一枕中。愧我此時難以慰。謾誇同牓出河東。
You never sought to be accepted by the world, fearing, no doubt, that the simurgh and the phoenix would be cramped in a crane's cage. At once you went off to field and garden to follow Tao Yuanming (陶淵明), and in the end you taught your village as Chen Rong (陳融) did. You merely trod the roads of the human world by chance; still you are an old man roaming lightly beyond all things. Though your children and grandchildren frolic in their bright patchwork clothes, what of it that you have no concubines with rouged faces? All your longing for home you send beyond a thousand folds of mountains, while a traveler's dreams stay clear within a single pillow. I am ashamed that at such a time I can hardly console you, and idly boast that we passed in the same examination list (榜), both out of Lord Yu's school in Hadong.
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陳融墓表云。故老曰。吾里有某。孝慈仁信。鄕人見之云云。
Chen Rong's grave tablet records this. An old man of former times said, "In our village there was a certain man, filial, loving, kind and trustworthy, and the villagers, seeing him…"
來寓子家。
He came and stayed at your house.