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Matching the Rhymes of Yi the Joint Manager (平章) on the Eight Views of Ganzhou (虔州) — Night Rain on the Xiaoxiang (瀟湘)次韻李平章虔州八景詩 瀟湘夜雨

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.

漠漠茫茫夜雨天。巫娥廟在益依然。蕭騷聲裡能無感。被酒篙工取次眠。

Over the far, far sky of this night rain stands the shrine of the two queens, the same as ever. In the sound of the lonely rustling how could one feel nothing— yet the boatman, drunk on wine, falls asleep as he pleases.

Interlinear notes 1

巫娥 — some read this as the divine maiden of Mount Wu (巫山). Since the first poem under this title brings up the two queens of Shun (舜), and the shrine on the Xiaoxiang is the Huangling shrine (黃陵廟) that enshrines the two queens, it has been read here as the two queens. — the translator