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Thinking of the Old Capital, Three Poems — Yeonuijeong (漣漪亭) Pavilion at Anhwasa (安和寺)憶舊京三詠 安和寺漣漪亭
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 1 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.
漣漪亭下水漣漪。豈爲無人有損虧。莫道泠泠依舊響。聞根不在許聲誰。
The water below Yeonuijeong runs on in little ripples — how should it shrink or wane because no one is there? Do not say that it rings clear and clear as it did of old: with no ear to hear, who is to say the sound exists?
Interlinear notes 2
不在一作已斷。
In one edition 「不在」 appears as 「已斷」.
楞嚴經云。許聲因聞。
The Neungeomgyeong (楞嚴經, the Śūraṃgama Sūtra) says, 「The granting of sound depends on hearing.」