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Lodging at the Sapyeong ford (沙平津)宿沙平津
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 6 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.
遊女冶容多效妓。居民祝髮半爲僧。江喧始識潮聲漲。地熱那堪瘴氣蒸。
The idle women, with their alluring faces, commonly ape the courtesans, and the people who live here have shaved their heads, and half of them have become monks. The river grows loud, and only then do I know that the sound of the rising tide is swelling; the ground is hot, and how is one to bear the steaming of the sultry air?