Matching the Rhymes of Vice Minister Yi Su's Long Palindrome Pieces — Climbing to the Back Garden and Watching Duke Yeongnyeong Set Out North as Envoy次韻李侍郞需廻文長篇 登後園。望永寧公北使詩。

The River of Heaven's branches run on, reaching from of old to the sky, and even in the land of fierce customs they pass the word in wonder: an immortal of noble lineage. In the house that receives the guest they complete the rites and make the welcome richer still, while the traveler's road, on the contrary, urges on the yoke and brings him home. The spirits have opened the way and aid him richly, so that men bend their bodies and bow low, and his sense of duty being weighty, from the first he opened the state and preserved it whole. Those who loved him close at hand only scatter tears that fall again and again, and I, old and failing, am ashamed to offer no help so much as a single drop of water. How should a subject's loyalty lie of necessity in toiling at an office? Among the near kinsmen one ought first of all to choose a worthy man. The unicorn's good faith moves even fierce and cruel beasts and turns them back, and the phoenix's majesty makes even rank and filthy fledglings mend and return. Beyond the reckoning of a spring and an autumn he will soon turn his banners and come seeking us, and evening or morning our hearts are one, as though we vied in splitting lotus seeds. The essence of the constellations must have gathered to form a gall like iron, and the far-off heavens, binding his span, will grant him years long to enjoy. With dignity he will put off his envoy's robes and return to the Yi (伊水) and the Luo (洛水), while on the far and distant road his dreams wander the lands of Dai (代) and Yan (燕). Even to receive ten thousand households besides he looks upon as dust; how should friendship with a neighbor be likened to wresting away a field in contention?