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Again Dividing the Rhymes I Drew the Word Dong (動), Gave It to Master Gak, and Sent It to Master Hyeon as Well又分韻得動字。贈覺公。兼簡玄公。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 140 Chinese characters · reading time 1.4 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 8 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.

南宗老宿僧中鳳。一入寒溪金碧洞。酌泉臥石猿鳥共。空巖唯有月迎送。浪翁窪樽應復弄。摩挲蒼苔窺罅縫。山磨水激洗煩冗。故應道韻轉淸聳。玄公落落繼佛隴。結茅月城三四棟。浮碧樓高鶴可控。逸想凌霞欻飛動。走浪春風鳴鐵甕。寒流瀉月搖銀汞。歸來作詩似泉湧。句法淸新輒驚衆。三師於予若昆仲。相逢一笑怳如夢。故人情深別難勇。留連劇飮何辭痛。

The old elder of the Southern School is a phoenix among monks, and once he entered the gold-and-blue valley of Hangye. Dipping spring water to drink, lying on the rocks, he keeps company with apes and birds, and on the empty crag only the moon greets him and sends him off. He must be playing again with the hollowed wine-jar of Langweng (浪翁), stroking the blue moss and peering into the split seams. The hills grind and the waters strike and wash the clutter away, and so the tone of his Way grows the clearer and the loftier. Master Hyeon, in his loneliness, carries on Folong (佛隴), and at Wolseong has woven three or four thatched huts. Bubyeongnu is high enough to catch and ride a crane, and his soaring thought passes the sunset haze and suddenly flies and stirs. On the racing waves the spring wind sounds an iron jar, and the cold current pours out the moon and shakes silver quicksilver. Come back, he makes poems as a spring wells up, and his turn of line is clear and new, startling the many at once. The three masters are to me as brothers; meeting and laughing once together, it is dim as a dream. The feeling of old friends is deep and it is hard to be brave at parting; held back, we drink hard — why should I decline to drink deep?

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玄往西京永唱寺。

Master Hyeon had gone to Yeongchang Temple (永唱寺) in the Western Capital.

裴休與黃葉唹法爲昆仲。

Pei Xiu (裴休) became as a brother to Hwangbyeok and Eobeop.