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On the Seventh Day of the Fifth Month of the Gihae Year (己亥) the Spring at My House Flowed Again, and I Made Five Poems of Question and Answer in Jest — The Master Answers Yet Again己亥五月七日。家泉復出。戲成問答五首。 主人又答

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 6 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.

汝智區區尺度間。諭予歸吸酒泉瀾。霞旌雲帔昇天去。渠輩於時得我看。

Your wisdom is a petty thing, staying within the span of a measuring rod; you tell me to go back down and drink the waves of the wine spring. But once I have risen to heaven with banners of sunset glow and robes of cloud, will those things beneath the earth be able to see me then at all?