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Roaming with Choe Ingong, Secretary of Chungwon, at the Jemurwon Pavilion on Jayeondo, I Compose This Using the Rhymes of the Various Gentlemen on the Plaque與忠原崔書記仁恭。遊紫鷰島濟物院亭。用板上諸公韻賦之。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 15 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.
一江無價景。數棟壓流亭。落日能黃赤。奔濤互白靑。海神剛挾勢。河伯詎分庭。漸遠▣▣▣。▣容與水形。
On one river's scenery, beyond all pricing, there stand a few pavilions pressing down the waves. The setting sun turns yellow, then turns red; the running waves turn white, then turn green. The god of the sea holds his power stoutly at his side — how should Hebo, the river god, divide the courtyard with him? Farther and farther away, □□□ □ the shapes keep company with the forms of the water.