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The Minister Has Always Replied by Showing Me a Single Poem, While I Answer Each Time with Two; I Do Not Know How It Will Seem to His Discerning Judgment. In Awe, in Awe. — Wild Geese Alighting on the Level Sands相國嘗和示一首。予每複以二首。未知鈞鑑何如。惶恐惶恐。 平沙落雁
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.
沙際無田只荻花。有何窺望落橫斜。人人焉得機心息。莫遣人禽共一家。
By the sandbar there are no fields, only the flowers of the reeds What is it you are spying out, that you slant down to alight How can every man make the scheming heart in him rest Do not let man and bird come to live together in one house
Interlinear notes 1
來詩云。雁已馴人人亦熟。人禽自在似同家。
In the poem he sent me he said: 「The geese are already tamed to men and men too have grown used to them, so that man and bird seem of themselves to dwell in one house.」