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From Namwon I Come to Wonsu Temple and Lodge, and Going Back toward Namwon I Stop at Inwol Station and Follow the Rhymes of a Poem on the Wall自南原到源水寺宿。還指南原。入印月驛。次壁上詩韻。
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.
宿雨初晴草色新。高低原隰錯龍鱗。豈愁一萬五千步。早是東西南北人。楊柳不詞迎送慣。江山應恠往來頻。眼前風景勤須記。他日廻頭跡旋陳。
The long rain has just cleared and the colour of the grass is new; high and low, the plains and the marshes mingle like dragon scales. Why should I grieve at fifteen thousand paces? Long since I have been a man of east and west and south and north. The willows, being used to greeting and sending off, do not refuse it, and river and hill must think my coming and going too frequent. Set down diligently the scene before your eyes: on another day, when you turn your head, the traces will be stale.