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On the Six Scenes of Master Im Gyeonggyeom's Bedside Screen — The Boatman Monk of Huating題任君景謙寢屛六詠。與尹同年等數子同賦。 華亭船子和尙
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.
夜寒江冷得魚遲。棹却空船去若飛。千古淸光猶不減。亦無明月載將歸。
The night is cold, the river chill, and the fish are slow in coming, yet he poles his empty boat and goes as though flying. The clear light of a thousand ages has not grown less, and neither does he load the bright moon and go home.