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Again, Made for Him in Different Rhymes又以別韻贈之。

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.

捨公何處豁吾情。畦畛無施示坦平。一笑一言溫可掬。眞他花卉亦秋榮。

Apart from you, my lord, where should I open my heart wide? You set up no boundaries like field-ridges, but show me level ground. Each laugh and each word of yours is warm enough to scoop up in the hand; truly it is as though those flowers and plants too had bloomed in autumn.

Interlinear notes 1

此二詩皆和。至數四首。後忘之不錄。

These two poems were both written in reply. They came to three or four in all, but I forgot the rest afterward and could not set them down.