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Following the Rhymes of Academician Bak, Who Replied to the Poem Sent with the Almanac and Came in Person次韻朴學士見和寄曆詩親訪贈之
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.
羞將老朽餘。強獻紀年書。君在長春境。陰陽任慘舒。
Ashamed of this body, worn away with age, I force myself to present a book that records the year. You dwell in a realm that is always spring, so leave yin and yang to shrink and stretch as they will.
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君面略無老態
There is not the least look of age in your face.
趁日手談餘。時觀曆象書。正朝立雨水。陽道進而舒。
Day by day, in the intervals between games of go, look now and then at the writing in the almanac. Rain Water (雨水) falls on New Year's Day, so the way of yang will advance and spread.