Matching the Rhyme on the Character “yeop” in Chief Minister Yi's Further Reply, I Answer Him Once More次韻復和李相國更和獵字韻
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 · 70 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 min
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.
Hearing the criers who go before Your Excellency's progress stirring up the village,
I started up and drew my collar together, and my hat strings fluttered again.
No sooner were we seated than the poem you tossed me was marvellous and strange,
like climbing Mount Tai and peeping at the jade tablets (玉牒).
Ever since I got this treasure, a very bright-moon pearl,
I lie awake night after night, guarding the box lest it be rifled.
Search among the men of old — who is there like this?
What Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi made is the very model of it.
Again let us sit knee to knee and discuss writing deeply,
pledged to go straight to root and stem and clear away the twigs and leaves.