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Spending the Night in the Abbot's Room of the Monk Jongui at Cheonsu Temple天壽寺鍾義師方丈夜宿
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.
煙寺侵昏訪。風箏徹夜聞。水甁餘冷滴。香篆有殘熏。
I sought out the mist-wrapped temple at dusk, and the wind-chimes were heard the whole night through. Cold drops still linger in the water jar, and the seal-script incense keeps a lingering scent.
Interlinear notes 1
二首
Two poems.
月出高山逈。風生小閣虛。我如棲寺鴿。來汚梵僧廬。
The moon comes out and the high mountain is far away; the wind rises and the small pavilion is empty. I am like a dove roosting in the temple, come to soil the monk's dwelling.