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Matching the Rhymes of Yi the Joint Manager (平章) on the Eight Views of Ganzhou (虔州) — Evening Snow on the River Sky次韻李平章虔州八景詩 江天暮雪

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 6 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.

江天無雪亦陰昏。更奈紛紛冒遠巒。唯有漁翁醉和睡。洒來蓑底不曾看。

Even without snow the river sky is already dim, how much more when snowflakes tangle and cover the far peaks. Only the old fisherman is drunk and dozing, and though the snow blows in under his straw cape he has yet to notice.