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Academician Jeong Sent Wine; I Poured and Drank, and Composed This丁學士送酒酌飮有作
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 9 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.
丁君顧我厚。送此一壺酒。能忍不之嘗。此意良難負。左目雖被翳。唇舌幸無憊。兩手亦得存。持飮庸何害。
Master Jeong looks after me thickly And sent me this one bottle of wine How could I bear not to taste it This intent is truly hard to disappoint My left eye, it is true, has been clouded over But my lips and tongue, happily, are not worn out And my two hands too are sound So what harm is there in holding it and drinking
Interlinear notes 1
而安
His name was Ian (而安).