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Roaming at Bingjeong Monastery, Shown to the Abbot遊氷靖寺。示住老。

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 0.6 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.

一餉繁華夢已空。故鄕還與故人同。煙巒遠似粧眉綠。霜葉濃於醉臉紅。往日狂携金谷妓。今朝始禮雪山童。陶潛習氣猶依舊。尙恐攢眉對遠公。

The splendid dream, no longer than one meal, is already empty, and my old village is after all of one kind with an old friend. The misted peaks are green in the distance as painted brows; the frost-touched leaves are redder than a drunken cheek. In former days I madly led about the courtesans of Jingu (金谷); this morning, for the first time, I bow to the boy of the Snow Mountain. Tao Qian's (陶潛) old habits are still what they were, and I fear I may yet knit my brows before Huiyuan (慧遠).