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On the Seventeenth, Entering Daegok Monastery十七日。入大谷寺。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

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.

石路高低平不平。閑騎果下彈鞭行。輕風靜掃烟光去。落月時兼曉色明。短麓前頭看寺榜。橫舟側畔問灘名。孤材何處吹寒笛。抱疾他鄕易惱情。

The stone road runs high and low, never even, and I go at my leisure on a gwaha pony (果下馬), flicking my whip. A light wind quietly sweeps the misty light away, and the sinking moon is now and then bright, doubled with the dawn. At the head of a low foothill I see the monastery's signboard; beside a boat lying athwart I ask the name of the rapids. Somewhere in a lonely village, who blows a cold flute? Holding my illness in a strange land, my heart is easily grieved.