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Matching the Rhymes of Yi the Joint Manager (平章) on the Eight Views of Ganzhou (虔州) — Returning Sails to the Distant Inlet次韻李平章虔州八景詩 遠浦歸帆
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.
帆遠天遙水色滄。未知舡與浪低昂。不須更說如飛去。一轉頭間又轉茫。
The sail is far, the sky vast, the water's color blue; rising and sinking—one cannot tell the boat from the waves. There is no need to say again that it goes as if flying: in the space of one turn of the head it has grown faint once more.