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On the Tower of Bunhaeng Station, Following the Rhymes of Academician Kim Hwangmun's Poem分行驛樓上。次金學士黃文詩韻。
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.
雞林好事首吟詩。留作多情朝暮思。櫪馬喧嘶殘月曉。枝禽噪集暝烟時。北還南去路何限。古往今來人自悲。日落水流膓斷處。郵亭無語閱興衰。
A lover of doings from Gyerim was the first to chant a poem, and left it here to become a feeling thought at morning and evening. The manger horses neigh noisily under the dawn's remaining moonlight; the birds on the branches chatter and gather in the hour of darkening mist. How should there be an end to roads going north and roads going south? The old departs and the present comes, and a man grows sad of himself. Where the sun sets and the water flows and the heart breaks, the post station watches rise and decline without a word.