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Again Following the Rhymes of Academician Jeong's Reply to the Poem Sent with the Almanac復次韻丁學士見和寄曆詩
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.
友執更誰餘。於何寄此書。餉君呈壽兆。面澤逐春舒。
Of those I befriended, who is left any more, and where should I send this book? I send it to you, presenting an omen of long life; the gloss of your face will spread along with the spring.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
There are two poems.
目眩□〔⿰黑頡〕花餘。難看蟻子書。知君眼如鏡。燈下想能舒。
My eyes swim, and only □ flower patterns waver before them, so that letters the size of ants are hard to see. I know your eyes are like mirrors, and that even under lamplight you can open it and read.