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Again Using Dongpo's Rhymes又用東坡詩韻
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 3 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.
道人愛深居。隱几形似木。靜坐不出門。有如凍鼈縮。跫然聞足音。一笑響空谷。玆遊豈偶然。宿債負幽獨。
The man of the Way loves to dwell deep in seclusion leaning on his armrest, his form is like wood Sitting still, he does not step out of the gate like a frozen turtle drawn in upon itself Hearing the tramp of footsteps he laughs once, and it echoes through the empty valley How could this outing be mere chance? It is an old debt owed to the quiet and the solitary