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The Next Day the Monastic Overseer Replied in Verse, So I Follow His Rhymes Again and Present This Respectfully明日。僧統和寄。復次韻奉呈。

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 · 2 passages · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 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.

形骸枯槁已非身。精魄飄零不似人。賴有吾師能起我。飽嘗甘露正醇醇。

The carcass is lean and withered and is no longer my own body Spirit and soul are blown away and I scarcely seem a man Happily I have my teacher, who raises me up And tasting the sweet dew to the full, it is thick indeed, and thick

Interlinear notes 1

二首

Two poems

枉顧閑門大耄身。始知法主視猶人。雖然不飮杯中釅。自有醍醐味大醇。

You bent your way to seek out my idle gate, and this body in its late years Knows for the first time that the lord of the Dharma looks on me as a man Though you do not drink the thick wine in the cup There is of itself the savor of clarified cream, and it is greatly thick