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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.

眉頭喜氣餘。咄咄不須書。天道否還泰。人材屈必舒。

A joyful air lingers at the tips of your brows, so there is no need to write the character for "strange" in the empty air. Heaven's way is blocked and then opens again, and a man of talent, once bent, is sure to be stretched straight.

Interlinear notes 1

言君之免官久矣。將有久屈必舒之意。

It is long since you withdrew from office; the sense is that what has long been bent is sure to be stretched straight.