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Drought Clouds旱雲
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.
如蓋如㫌復似幡。去來屯散本無根。狂風愼勿輕吹卷。儻作霏霏雨一番。
Like a parasol, like a banner, and like a flag, coming and going, gathering and scattering, they have no root at all. Mad wind, take care not to blow them lightly away — for they may yet become one drizzling fall of rain.
Interlinear notes 1
一作使渠變化多千狀。未作霏霏雨一番。
One version has: "It made that thing change into a thousand shapes, and yet it could not form one drizzling fall of rain."