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Hogok’s Remarks on Poetry (Compendium of Remarks on Poetry)
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沙浦李志賤。少而放佚。有所眄娼。一日往訪。娼不在。獨其琴在耳。欲還而街鍾已動。獨坐悄然。遂以一絕題壁而歸。后十年。李客游湖南。逆旅遇一女。色已衰。猶有餘妍。問李曰。公非姓某諱某耶。曰。 然。女曰。公能記某年間所眄某娼否。吾乃娼之伴某也。每憶公題壁詩。不忘於懷。吾友今也則亡。妾亦老大。作巫漂落南土。追思舊遊。真一夢也。仍泣下。李問曰。汝能誦吾詩否。女朗誦曰。碧穹殘月曉仍留。曲渚輕蘭已覺秋。斜抱玉琴彈不得。只今離恨在心頭。女仍請曰。素知公詩名於世。願得一篇。即脫衫而進之。李題贈一絕曰。越羅衫袂動生香。裊娜纖腰一掬強。晚人巫山作神女。時隨行雨下高唐。
As a youth, Yi Chich’ŏn (b. 1589; sobriquet Sap’o [Sandy Shore]) was indulgent and fell in love with a singing girl. One day when he went to visit her, she was away and only her zither was there. He wished to leave but the evening bell had already tolled. After sitting there alone quietly, Yi wrote a quatrain on the wall and returned. Ten years later, when Yi visited Chŏlla province, he met a woman at an inn. She was already old but still beautiful. She asked Yi, “Isn’t your name Yi Chich’ŏn?” Yi replied, “Yes.” The woman said, “Do you remember the singing girl you fell in love with in a certain year? I am her companion so and so. I always remember the poem you wrote on the wall. I did not forget and kept it in heart. My friend had already died, and I too have aged. Now as a shaman, I wander the south. When I recollect the bygone days, truly it is like a dream.” Then she wept. Yi asked her, “Can you recite my poem?” The woman then recited, 碧穹殘月曉仍留曲渚輕蘭已覺秋斜抱玉琴彈不得只今離恨在心頭 Blue sky and a crescent moon still linger at dawn.Winding waterside and delicate orchids, it already feels like fall. Holding your jade zither, I cannot play.Only the sorrow of parting today is in my heart. She asked, “I know your poems are famous throughout the world. I would like you to write me a poem.” She then took off her jacket and offered it to him. Yi wrote on it the following quatrain, 越羅衫袂動生香裊娜纖腰一掬強晚入巫山作神女時隨行雨下高唐 Your jacket and sleeves of Yue silk exude fragrant aroma.Your slender and graceful waist is slightly larger than a fist.In the evening you enter the shaman mountain and become a fairy.At times, following the passing rain, you descend on Gaotang.
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