Following the Rhymes of Director Ha's Poem in Reply, as the Brush Went走筆次韻河郞中見和
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 8 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.
已識明年賀慶辰。欲營何事備迎新。唯須力釀椒花酒。與子同傾數爵巡。
Already I know next year's auspicious days,
so what must I set in order to make ready for the new year?
Only I shall take pains to brew pepper-flower wine and set it by,
and tip a few rounds of it together with you.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
There are two poems.
人呼元日是佳辰。我嘆空添雪鬢新。曆上年周第八秩。已看六甲七廻巡。
People call New Year's Day a good day,
while I sigh in vain that only my white side-locks are newly grown.
The year on the almanac has entered the eighth decade, looking toward eighty,
and I have already seen the stem gap (甲) come round seven times.
Interlinear notes 1
樂天詩云。年開第八秩。其自注云。時俗謂七十已上。爲開第八秩。
A poem by Bai Letian (白樂天) says, "My years have opened the eighth decade," and in his own note he says, "At that time it was commonly said that to pass seventy is to open the eighth decade."