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Matching the Rhymes of Elder Hyemun's Eight Songs of Sudasa Temple — The Stone Well次韻惠文長老水多寺八詠 石井
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 2 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.
轆轤聲斷睡寒虬。石罅狂噴自在流。水性人心若無垢。不須憑仗月輪秋。
The sound of the well-bucket has stopped, and the cold hornless dragon sleeps; from the crack in the rock it spouts wildly and flows as it pleases. If the nature of water and the heart of man are without stain, there is no need to lean on the autumn moon's wheel.
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師詩云。汲罷僧歸山月上。十分淸鏡冷涵秋。故云。
The monk's poem said, 「The drawing of water done, the monk returns as the moon rises on the mountain; a mirror clear to the full ten parts holds the autumn coldly in its mouth」 — and so this is said.