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Academician Bak Having Replied, I Match the Rhymes Again朴學士見和。復次韻。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 7 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.
鸑鷟爲名意信奇。宛如雙翼彩文披。欲傾家貯勤添酒。且願歸裎醉揷枝。鳥作國祥如可導。花呈家瑞又安知。若敎移種沈香北。何必淸平芍藥詞。
Named for the akjak (鸑鷟), a kind of phoenix, its sense is truly strange, as though two wings had spread their lovely markings out before us. I would tilt the wine jar kept at home and set to pouring more, and hope that on going home we may loosen our robes and, drunk, put a branch in our hair. If the bird could be drawn here as a good omen for the state, how should one know besides that the flower offers a good omen for the house? If it were to be transplanted north of the Aloeswood Pavilion, why must it be the peony song of the “Qingping Tune”?