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Roaming Gupumsa with Jin, I Followed the Rhymes of the Poem the Monastic Overseer Yeong Left on the Wall and Wrote This After It同晉生遊九品寺。次韻頴僧統壁上所留詩。書其後。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 11 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.
頴老雲情早出塵。坐敎飛閣咄嗟新。偶看古壁留題句。想對當時見在身。山月盈虧空晦朔。巖花開落自秋春。闍梨莫患無重構。祝我餘年得倒椿。
Old Yeong, with a heart like a cloud, left the dust behind early, and sitting where he was he made the soaring pavilion new in an instant. Chancing upon the lines he left on the old wall, I seem to face the living body he had in that day. The mountain moon waxes and wanes, and month's end and first day pass for nothing; the flowers on the rock open and fall, and of themselves it is autumn and spring. Reverend, do not grieve that there is no one to build it again; pray rather that the years left to me may topple the cedrela.
Interlinear notes 1
頴公重創此寺。
Master Yeong rebuilt this temple.