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Moved at the Inn, I Follow the Rhymes of an Ancient旅舍有感。次古人韻。
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.
寂寞寄人宅。淹延費歲華。麥花鋪白雪。楓葉染丹霞。木老看垂菌。池寒吊敗荷。長安何日到。目斷碧天涯。
Forlornly lodged in another man's house, I stay long and squander the months and years. The buckwheat flowers have spread a white snow; the maple leaves have dyed a red evening glow. I see that the tree has grown old and hangs with fungus, and the pond being cold, I mourn the withered lotus. On what day shall I reach Jangan (長安)? My gaze breaks off at the end of the blue sky.