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On the Tenth of the Eighth Month, the Reverend Gyu Asks Me to Write Something for His Cloister, and I Compose One Poem八月十日。珪公請題其院。爲賦一首。
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.
萬里高天斷鴈秋。閑尋古刹碧波頭。喧喧門外千帆集。寂寂巖陬丈室幽。滿院松篁僧富貴。一江烟月寺風流。莫言林下何曾見。擺却浮名欲退休。
Autumn, when the wild geese break off in a high sky ten thousand li wide, and at my leisure I seek the old temple at the head of the blue waves. Noisily, outside the gate, a thousand sails gather; quietly, in a corner of the rocks, the abbot's room lies hidden. Pines and bamboo filling the yard are a monk's wealth and rank; the mist and moon of one river are the cloister's elegance. Do not ask what it was I saw here beneath the grove; I mean to shake off this floating fame and withdraw to rest.