Matching the Rhymes of Academician Kim's Reply to the Poem on the Summer Study次韻金學士見和夏課詩
美哉古風誰力廻。花山亦有興儒地。此豈一時翔集耳。傳及子孫孫復子。憶昔諸生全盛時。門抽戶拔爭奮起。君時早慧本生知。吟詩作賦如翻水。我名敎導何敎爲。反欲師之竊求媚。此皆實錄非虛辭。不唯森目森在意。其間先進皆物故。每一念之潛拭淚。與公今者幸其時。得路俱登好官位。每思吾門根柢空。行若無憑立無恃。頹堤復築一出君。意欲歸吾理非是。人有其功已自尸。盜莫爲大非細事。所期衮衮招後生。鑄鍛顔騫心勿弛。因之重紐十二徒。不須偏爲吾齋喜。
Beautiful! By whose strength was the old spirit brought back? Even in Ganghwa there was ground for raising Confucian learning. How should this be a thing that gathers for a season and scatters? It will pass to our children, and their children will carry it on again. I think back to when the students were at their height: from house after house outstanding men rose up and strove. You were then wise beyond your years, one who knew from birth, and you chanted poems and made rhapsodies as water is poured out. I was in name an instructor (敎導), but what did I teach? Rather I took you for my teacher and quietly sought your good opinion. All this is a record of fact and not empty words; it is vivid not before my eyes only but in my heart as well. In the meantime the elders have all left the world, and at every remembrance I wipe away tears in secret. You and I have now happily met with our time, and finding our way have risen together to good office. Whenever I thought how the root of our school stood empty, walking I had nothing to lean on, standing nothing to trust. The rebuilding of the broken dyke came from you alone, and to try to turn that merit over to me does not fit reason. To take another man's merit for one's own is a great theft among thefts, no small matter. My hope is that you call in those who come after without ceasing, and forge men like Yan Hui and Min Ziqian, never slackening your mind. By this the Twelve Companies (十二徒) must be tied together again; it is not a thing to rejoice over for our own hall alone.
Interlinear notes 3
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His name was Chang (敞).
夏課。習赴擧詩賦。
The summer study (夏課) was the practice of the poems and rhapsodies needed for the state examination.
君詩自注云。我初屬齋。君爲敎導。
In the note he himself attached to his poem he said, “When I first entered the hall you were the instructor.”