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On the Twenty-eighth Day of the Sixth Month, Chancellor Choe, the Chief Minister, Sent Fine Wine and Cold Ice, and I Respectfully Gave Thanks六月二十八日。奉謝首相崔侍中惠送旨酒寒氷。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 10 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.
十分芳酒霑唇滑。一段淸氷凍手寒。每荷異恩無以報。但知老眼淚汍瀾。
The brimming fragrant wine wets my lips and is smooth, and one lump of clear ice freezes my hand and is cold. Always I receive extraordinary kindness with no way to repay it, and only the tears stream down from these old eyes.
年年送與千金酒。副以寒羞及別羞。爲愛閑門衰病叟。遣消煩悶遣消憂。
Year after year you send me wine worth a thousand in gold, and add to it cold dishes and rare delicacies besides. You take pity on a failing, ailing old man of an idle house, and let him dispel his stifled heart and dispel his cares.
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前送蓴菜。或送餛飩。
Earlier he sent water-shield greens, and sometimes he sent dumplings as well.