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At the Guest House of Bugye District, Matching the Rhymes of the Gentlemen's Poems on the Board缶溪縣客舍。次韻板上諸公詩。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 12 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.
勝景無窮餉客多。味如啖蔗漸生嘉。偶成圖畫沿溪寺。別占風流映柳家。浪急游魚衝落石。巖空幽鳥戱挼花。箇中聞有三山在。誰謂蓬瀛路阻遐。
The fine scenery has no end and gives a traveler much hospitality, and the taste of it, like chewing sugarcane, grows lovelier as it goes. What has made a painting by chance is the temple along the stream; what holds a charm all its own is the house mirrored in the willows. The current is swift, and the playing fish strike against fallen stones; the rock is hollow, and secluded birds play, brushing at the flowers. I have heard that among them there are the Three Mountains (三山), so who would say the road to Penglai and Yingzhou is far and barred?
Interlinear notes 1
是縣古記云。縣有三山故云。
The old record of this district says that the district has Three Mountains; hence these words.