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Reaching the Temple at Nightfall, We Drank a Little and Each Composed to the Rhymes of Pi Rixiu's Poem日晚到寺小酌。用皮日休詩韻各賦。
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.
碧瓦鱗差出樹端。洞門人靜立蒼官。滿林白雪猿跳破。半壁紅暉鳥喚殘。香燼冷堆山室寂。磬聲淸斷石牎寒。我狂漸息堪禪縛。莫作當年獵將看。
Green tiles come out past the treetops, overlapping like scales, and the mouth of the valley is still, where a green officer (蒼官) stands. The white snow that fills the grove a monkey leaps and breaks; the red glow half upon the wall a bird calls away to nothing. Incense ash heaps cold, and the mountain room is quiet; the chime's note breaks off clear, and the stone window is cold. My madness is dying down, and I can bear the bonds of Seon; do not look on me as the hunting general of those days.