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From Hwagae Temple I Came to Yongdam Temple, Where My Friend the Monk Hyeun Lives, and Left This Written There自花開到故人惠雲師所住龍潭寺。留題。
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.
空谷風猶響。寒溪水自舂。養憐支遁馬。呪下涉公龍。小圃澆靈朮。幽庭護稚松。一聲淸夜磬。半月落遙峯。
In the empty valley the wind sounds still, and in the cold stream the water pounds of itself. In his rearing of them he loved the horses of Zhi Dun (支遁); with incantations he brought down the dragon of Shegong (涉公). In a little plot he waters the spirit atractylis, and in a secluded yard he guards the young pines. On a clear night, at one stroke of the chime, the half moon sets upon the far peak.