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On the Thirteenth of the Ninth Month, Leaving the Capital for Jeonju, Parting from Jin Gongdo and Han So on a Boat on the Imjin River九月十三日。發長安。將赴全州。臨津江船上。與晉公度,韓韶相別。

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 · 20 Chinese characters · reading time 0.2 min

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.

遠浦烟拖素。澄灣日浴金。三人揮別淚。斗覺海波深。

On the far creek the mist drags white silk, and in the clear bend the sun bathes in gold. Three men scatter the tears of parting, and suddenly I know how deep the sea's waters are.