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Following the Rhymes of Academician Bak, Who Replied to the Poem Sent with the Almanac and Came in Person — Another Poem次韻朴學士見和寄曆詩親訪贈之 又一首

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 · 1 passages · 20 Chinese characters · reading time 0.2 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.

平時奉緖餘。餘事及琴書。病裡逢淸裁。中懷恨未舒。

In ordinary days I have upheld what was left of the Way, and with what remained I reached to the geomungo and to letters. In illness I met your clear bearing, but it grieves me that I could not unfold what was in my heart.

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謝訪兼敍病中不得攀話之意

This thanks him for coming, and sets down as well the sense that, being ill, I could not keep him and talk with him.