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On the Sixteenth, Following the Rhymes of Jungyongja's Poem十六日。次中庸子詩韻。
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.
羈紲不到處。白雲僧自閑。烟光愁暮樹。松色護秋山。落日寒蟬噪。長天倦鳥還。病中深畏客。白日鎖松關。
A place where halter and rein do not reach: the monk among white clouds is idle of himself. The color of the mist saddens the darkening trees; the color of the pines keeps watch over the autumn hills. In the setting sun the cold cicadas are loud; down the long sky the weary birds come home. Being ill, I dread visitors greatly, and even at high noon I bar the pine gate.