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Presented to Chan Master Bo, and Also Informing Master Gong次韻宋朝播禪老寄空空上人 贈播禪老。兼簡空師。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 3 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.
此去中華隔大瀛。兩公相照鏡心淸。空師方結蜂窼室。播老遙傳兔角名。杖古尙餘斑竹暈。鉢靈應秀碧蓮莖。誰敎一日親交錫。共作金毛震地聲。
From here to China a great sea lies across, yet the two of you shine upon each other, and your mirror-like minds are clear. Master Gong has just now woven together a cell like a beehive, and the elder Bo from afar hands over the name 「Togak」. The staff is old, and the mottled-bamboo markings remain on it still; the bowls are numinous, fit to send up a green lotus stalk. Who will let the two staffs stand side by side one morning, and make them together sound the golden-haired lion's roar that shakes the ground?