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The Next Day, Using Bak Inbeom's Rhymes Again, We Each Composed明日。又用朴仁範詩韻各賦。
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.
洞深煙霧碧凄迷。其奈無情日又西。厭雪寒麕爭穴燥。避風幽鳥擇枝低。走藤遇曲難成杖。臥木因高偶作梯。不識空門閑氣味。到山煩覓壁閒題。
The valley is deep, and the mist is blue and thick; what can be done that the heartless sun goes west again? Hating the snow, the cold roe deer contend for a dry burrow; shunning the wind, the hidden birds choose a low branch. The running vine meets a bend and can hardly make a staff; the fallen tree, being high, has by chance become a ladder. Not knowing the idle savor of the empty gate, I come to the mountain and busily hunt the writings on the wall.