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Again Using an Ancient's Rhymes, I Ran My Brush and Wrote It on the Wall又用古人詩韻走筆書壁上
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.
霽天寒碧月分眀。十二蓮花滴瀝聲。除却燒香無一事。始知禪格大高生。
The cleared sky is cold and blue, and the moon is distinct; from the twelve lotus flowers comes the sound of dripping. Apart from burning incense there is not one thing to do; and now at last I know that the manner of Seon is greatly lofty.