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Privy Councillor Choe Came to Visit and Wrote Out for Me a Poem He Said He Had Got on the Road, So I Follow His Rhymes次韻崔樞府見訪。自言路上得詩寫贈。
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.
結髮同遊媟莫疏。申之共作孔門徒。訪來應記當年舊。眷眷恩情得可孤。
From the days when we plaited our hair we played together, easy with each other and never grown distant And besides that we became together disciples at Confucius' gate That he came must be because he remembers the old days of that year How could I slight so earnest a kindness
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公衍
Gongyeon (公衍)
予昔與公遊學。公以大學生改虎官。歷官至樞府。
I studied letters together with him in former days. He was a student at the National Academy (太學) and then changed to the military service, and passing through office he came to the Privy Council.