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On the Eleventh, Setting Out Early from Wonheung Monastery and Reaching Yeongsan Bugok十一日。早發元興。到靈山部曲。
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.
靈山最僻邑。客路尙荒榛。歲儉有逋戶。民淳多老人。黃鷄啼呃喔。蒼鼠出嚬呻。數箇緇衣吏。驚馳似迓賓。
Yeongsan is the most out-of-the-way of districts; the traveler's road is still rough thicket. The year being lean, there are households that have fled; the people being simple, the old are many. A yellow hen cries cluck-cluck, an ash-gray rat comes out and squeaks. A few clerks in black robes come running, startled, as if to greet a guest.
Interlinear notes 1
探韻得人字。
Drawing for a rhyme, I got the character 人 (in, 'person').