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About to Leave for the Jeonju Headquarters, Yi Jungmin Gave Me a Poem; Matching Its Rhymes I Answer — Composed in Chan Master Wang's Abbot's Room將赴全州幕府。李中敏見贈。次韻答之。在王禪師方丈作。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 9 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.
別離無幾日。誰與放狂吟。莫被霜欺鬢。唯將月照心。煙江鎔碧玉。露菊沸黃金。相憶是何處。萬山深復深。
Few days are left before we part, so with whom shall I chant wildly to my heart's content? Do not let the frost cheat your temples; only let the moon shine upon your heart. The misted river has melted green jade, and the dew-wet chrysanthemums boil gold. Where shall we think of each other? Ten thousand folds of mountain, deep and deep again.