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On the Tenth of the Seventh Month, Roaming at Daean Temple, I Leave These Lines Behind七月十日。遊大安寺留題。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 13 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.
路接巉岩絶壁前。晴雲蓬渤湧如烟。流泉遇石徘徊去。走葛緣松委曲纏。僧院寂寥閑世界。洞門寬曠別神仙。何人乞與霞漿飮。爲洗紅塵舊骨膻。
The road runs on before sheer crags and cliffs, and the clearing clouds billow up like smoke. The flowing spring meets a stone and goes hesitating on; the creeping arrowroot climbs the pine and winds about in coils. The monks' cloister is still — a world at leisure; the mouth of the valley is wide — immortals of another world. Who will lend me the wine of the sunset glow to drink, and wash away the rankness of these old bones steeped in the red dust?