Matching the Rhymes of Vice Minister Yi Su's Long Palindrome Pieces — A Poem on a Prodigy Child Skilled at Go次韻李侍郞需廻文長篇 神童國手詩
棊枰鬪可樂筵賓。慧悟兒奇絶藝眞。羆夢瑞孚男得誕。豹韜兵借局來陳。羸形去認泉流漲。密譜排成兔勢神。施却簟宜窓竹雨。設兼樽好塢花春。垂垂日駐方酣戰。兀兀槌搖退怯人。雌視己知稀手敵。乳餘猶自帶痕新。漪漣溜必盈池碧。濫溢罍須貯酒辛。眉面對將觀捷妙。袖袪牽孰到連頻。披瞳我漸開遮膜。理脚君當起憊身。誰是少歟誰是老。知才一斷議年椿。
The battle on the Go board is fit to delight the guests seated about it, and the wisely awakened child is a marvel, his outstanding gift is true. The auspice of the bear dream proved trustworthy, and a boy was born; he borrows the strategy of the Leopard Quiver (豹韜) and sets it out upon the board. As his lean form goes on, I know the spring water is swelling; and as he lays out close-packed moves, the swift hare-like formation is wondrous. A bamboo mat is spread, and the sound of rain in the bamboo grove beyond the window suits it well; a wine jar is set out as well, and the flowering spring on the hillside is good. The sun lingers low in its setting while the battle ripens to its height, and when he towers up and shakes his cudgel the frightened one draws back. Though he lowers himself as if losing, I know already that few can stand against him, and the smell of milk still lingers, its traces fresh. The drops that make small ripples will surely fill the pond and be green, and to the brim we must fill the jar with pungent wine. Facing brow to brow and face to face, we watch the quick and subtle moves, and tugging at sleeves — who can hold out to play on without a break? He parts my pupils, and the film that veiled them gradually opens; tend to your legs, and you ought to raise up your weary body. Who is young and who is old? If skill be known it will be settled at a stroke; why reckon up the years and argue?
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有姓郭小兒善棊。嘗於晉陽公前着之。
A child of the Gwak (郭) surname was skilled at Go. He had once played before Duke Jinyang (晉陽公).
吾家泉。此月內。須湧出盈池。
The spring at my house will well up within this month and fill the pond.
予未見兒故云云。
I had not seen the child, and so I said this.
君詩序。有脚病之辭。
In the preface to your poem there is a passage speaking of an ailment of the legs.