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Lodging at Gwangmyeongsa, Shown to the Abbot, the Old Master Seon宿廣明寺。示堂頭禪老。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 16 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.
多病一身燈影裏。欲殘孤夢雨聲中。我今不是攢眉客。投社終隨老遠公。
This one body, full of sickness, is within the shadow of the lamp; the lonely dream, about to fade, is in the midst of the sound of the rain. I am no longer a traveler who knits his brows, so I shall enter the society and follow the old master Hyewon (慧遠) to the end.