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Matching the Rhymes of Yi the Joint Manager (平章) on the Eight Views of Ganzhou (虔州) — Clear-Day Haze over the Mountain Village次韻李平章虔州八景詩 山市晴嵐

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.

非煙非霧襲重重。宛作僧家氣鬱蔥。此是山中無價景。有何廛市落這中。

Neither smoke nor mist, it comes layer upon layer, until the air of the temple halls has fairly grown luxuriant. This is a scene in the mountains beyond all price— what marketplace could be set down in the midst of it?