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On the Six Scenes of Master Im Gyeonggyeom's Bedside Screen — Pan Lang Faces the Three Peaks題任君景謙寢屛六詠。與尹同年等數子同賦。 潘閬向三峯

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

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.

閬仙若也愛三華。一望嵯峨已足多。倒正騎驢何更問。詩人好事亦云夸。

If the immortal Pan Lang truly loved those three peaks, one look at their towering was already enough. Why ask again whether he rode backward or rode straight? A poet's fondness for a fuss may be called a boast as well.