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On the Nineteenth, Lodging at Jangan Monastery, I Compose This十九日。寓長安寺有作。
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.
到山聊得滌塵襟。況遇高僧支道林。長劒遠遊孤客思。一杯相笑故人心。天晴舍北溪雲散。月落城西竹霧深。病度流年空嗜睡。古園松菊夢中尋。
Come to the mountain, I wash at last this dust-stained breast — how much more, having met a lofty monk, a Zhi Daolin (支道林). The thought of a lone traveler who wanders far with a long sword at his side, the heart of an old friend who laughs with me over a single cup. The sky clears, and clouds scatter from the stream north of the house; the moon sets, and mist lies deep in the bamboo west of the walls. Spending the flowing years in sickness, I take idle pleasure only in sleep, and seek the pines and chrysanthemums of my old garden in dreams.