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The Chief Minister (相國) and the Guests at the Gathering Sent Answering Poems, So I Matched the Rhymes Again相國及坐客見和。復次韻。

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.

嫌他桃李怯侵寒。種菊元無地隙間。莫把花名誇十八。明年添得百千般。

Loathing how peach and plum shrink from the cold, I planted chrysanthemums, though from the first there was no spare ground. Do not boast that the flower's names come to eighteen— next year I shall gain a hundred thousand kinds more.

Interlinear notes 1

百千一作許多

In some texts 百千 (a hundred thousand) stands as 許多 (a great many).