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Matching the Rhymes of Yi the Joint Manager (平章) on the Eight Views of Ganzhou (虔州) — Autumn Moon on Dongting Lake (洞庭)次韻李平章虔州八景詩 洞庭秋月
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.
何事江天得月多。金波交映鏡澄波。雖然天朗無纖靄。未害疏林間綠蘿。
For what reason is the moonlight so abundant over the river sky? Golden ripples answer one another, clear as a mirror. Though the sky is bright and there is not a thread of haze, green vines twining in the sparse woods are no hindrance either.