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In Early Spring on the Imjin River, Seeing Off Mun, the Zen Elder, as He Returns to His Home Temple — Chanted on the Spot at the Riverside早春臨津江上。送文禪老還本寺。江上口占。
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.
胡爲勸駐馬。不欲見乘舟。後會縱靑眼。此行應白頭。
Why do you urge me to halt my horse? It is because I do not wish to see you board the boat. Though at some later meeting we may give each other a glad look, on this journey my head will surely turn white.