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On the Twenty-first, Setting a Boat Afloat on the Hapung River二十一日。泛舟河豐江。
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.
碧湖輕棹木蘭舟。滿目烟濤揔是愁。今歲漸非前歲貌。異鄕還憶故鄕遊。龍湫日暮腥雲合。鸞嶺秋寒瘴氣收。路斷方壺無計往。玉芝無奈老滄洲。
On the blue lake, light oars and a magnolia-wood boat; the misted waves that fill my eyes are nothing but sorrow. This year is less and less what last year looked like, and in a strange land I think instead of the pleasures of home. The sun sets on the dragon pool, and rank clouds gather; autumn comes cold to Luan-bird Ridge, and the sultry air clears. The way is cut, and there is no road to Bangho (方壺), so what can I do but let the jade fungus (芝草) grow old at Changju (滄洲)?