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Following the Rhymes of Academician Jeong's Further Reply to the Poem Sent with the Almanac次韻丁學士復和寄曆詩
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.
時省聽朝餘。斯稱御覽書。頒宣及遺老。與子又同舒。
Now and then, after attending to the court audience, this is called the book the king himself reads. His bestowing of it reaches even an old man in retirement, and I open it once more together with you.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
There are two poems.
猶及退殘餘。年年獨是書。但嗟春氣力。未遣老尫舒。
Still it reaches even this old body in retirement; year by year it is only this book. I sigh at one thing only — that the breath of spring cannot stretch out a body old and wasted.