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On the Fourteenth of the Eleventh Month, Going with the Elder Mun and Bak Hwango to Visit the Seon Elder Seong at Heungseong Temple (興聖寺), I Chanted This on the Road仲冬十四日。同文丈老,朴還古。訪興聖寺成禪老。路上口占。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 7 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.
覓伴成三老。危巓度木梢。猛風衝帽過。微雪點衣消。路遠猶甘皸。人遐幾費翹。興來聊訪戴。不必見招邀。
Seeking companions, we came to be three old men, and from the high ridge we pass the tips of the trees. A fierce wind strikes our hats as it goes by; fine snow dots our clothes and melts away. Though the road is long, we take sweetly to our chapped feet; the man being far off, how many times have we craned our necks? High spirits come, and we go, as we may, to look for Dai Andao (戴安道); there is no need to wait to be asked.