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Vice Minister Yi Again Replied to My Poems on Peaches and Pears and Showed Them to Me, So Following His Rhymes I Made Six Poems — Thanking Him for Picking All the Peaches Left on the Tree and Sending Them次韻李侍郞復和桃梨詩四首見示。依韻和成六首。其末二章。一謝摘盡樹上餘桃見寄。一謝最後所餉金色大梨云。 此謝摘盡樹上餘桃見寄
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.
知予病所嗜。卷送樹頭團。爛到深霜摘。新揮浥露飱。緗非當日碧。甘入舊時酸。豈意一旬內。令吾得再看。
Knowing what I take pleasure in while ill, you wrapped up the round things at the treetop and sent them. Left to ripen soft until the hard frost fell, then picked; freshly wet with dew, I shake them off and eat. The pale yellow is not the green of that day, and sweetness has entered into the sourness of former days. How could I have thought that within ten days you would let me see them again?
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昔大碧。今殘黃。
Last time they were deeply green; now they have yellowed and withered.
昔全酸。經霜後多甘氣。
Last time they were sour throughout; having met the frost, they now have much sweetness.