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Written While Lodging at Cheollyong Temple寓居天龍寺有作
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.
全家來寄碧山傍。矮帽輕衫臥一床。肺渴更知村酒好。睡昏聊喜野茶香。竹根逬地龍腰曲。蕉葉當窓鳳尾長。三伏早休民訟少。不妨時復事空三。
My whole household has come to lodge beside the green hill, and in a low cap and a light jacket I lie upon a single couch. My lungs being parched, I know again how good the village wine is; my sleep being muzzy, I am glad enough of the fragrance of the field tea. Bamboo roots shoot up from the ground, bent like a dragon's waist; plantain leaves face the window, long like a phoenix's tail. In the three dog days I rest early and the people's lawsuits are few: no harm if now and then I busy myself again with the three of Emptiness.