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Roaming Again at Yongdam Temple重遊龍潭寺
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.
百尺樓前路走南。刺桐林下訪龍潭。竹嫌渭畝千無一。柳恨陶門五減三。園棗成陰今始見。巖泉有味昔曾諳。故人仙去今何處。落日茫茫恨可堪。
Before the hundred-foot tower the road runs south, and below the thorn-tree wood I seek out Yongdam. The bamboo shrinks that it is not even one of the thousand stalks on the banks of the Wei; the willows grieve that of Tao Qian's five trees at the gate three are gone. Only now do I first see the garden's jujubes making shade, but that the rock spring has a savor I knew long ago. Where is my old friend now, since he went off like an immortal? The setting sun is far and dim — how can the grief be borne?
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予南行時病寓處也。
This is the place where I lay ill and stayed on when I was going south.