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The Next Day the Academician Replied Again in Verse, So I Follow His Rhymes and Answer Him Respectfully明日。學士又和寄。次韻奉答。

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 · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 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.

吾今退老屛塵喧。子亦閑居懶出門。猶許詩壇攀逸躅。亦容海眼計深源。五陰爲賊君何患。四大非眞佛固言。更坐觀心除妄想。我方邀致與開樽。

I am old now and withdrawn, and have put off the clamor of the dusty world And you too live at leisure and are slow to go out of your gate Yet you allow me to follow your rare traces on the field of poetry And let me sound even the spring-hole at the bottom of the sea and measure its deep source Though the Five Aggregates (五陰) be robbers, what have you to fear The Buddha said truly that the Four Great Elements (四大) are not real Sit again and look into your mind, and be rid of idle thoughts I am just now about to welcome you and open a wine jar together

Interlinear notes 3

予與君同讀楞嚴。

I read the Shurangama Sutra together with you.

君詩云

Your poem says:

海眼 — Some read it of the human eye, as 「with an eye like the sea」. — the translator