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Answering His Poem on Lodging at Bongseong和宿峰城
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.
半山斜日過簷遲。淸句唯吟杜紫薇。溪竹困陰孫未長。庭梅飽雨子初肥。旅軒風簟牽人睡。野鼎春蔬慰客饑。千里倦遊誰勞問。石樓僧定銷烟霏。
The slanting sun half-way up the hill is slow to pass the eaves, and for clear lines I chant only Du Ziwei (杜紫薇). The bamboo by the stream, worn with shade, has grandchildren that do not grow; the plum in the yard, filled full with rain, has fruit just grown plump. The breezy bamboo mat on the traveller's floor draws on a man's sleep, and spring greens from a field cauldron comfort a traveller's hunger. Who will trouble to ask after one worn out with a thousand li of roaming? In the stone loft the monk enters his meditation, and the mist melts away.
Interlinear notes 1
此行唯携杜紫薇集。
On this journey he took with him only the collected works of Du Ziwei (杜紫薇).