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This Day I Lodged at Bogwangsa and, Using the Rhymes of a Poem Left by the Late Scribe Wang, Gave It to the Hall Head是日宿普光寺。用故王書記儀留題詩韻。贈堂頭。

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 · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 10 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.

夢斷山窓落月光。聳肩吟到日蒼凉。地溫尙有林衣綠。園古偏多木耳黃。七睕香茶風皷腋。一盤寒菓雪侵膓。若將釋老融鳧乙。莫斥吾家祖伯陽。

Dream broken, at the mountain window the setting moonlight; hunching my shoulders I chanted until the sun turned cool. The ground is warm, and the green of the forest's coat still holds; the garden is old, and the tree-ear mushrooms are strikingly yellow. With seven bowls of fragrant tea a wind rises under my arms, and with one tray of cold fruit the snow invades my bowels. If you would melt the Buddha and Laozi together like duck and swallow, do not drive out Baegyang (伯陽), the ancestor of my house.