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Matching the Rhymes of Yi the Joint Manager (平章) on the Eight Views of Ganzhou (虔州) — Evening Bell from a Mist-Veiled Temple次韻李平章虔州八景詩 煙寺暮鍾
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.
西峯日落暮山寒。響出孤煙杳漠間。一度落殘還一度。柰知聲亦未容閑。
The sun goes down on the western peak and the darkening hills turn cold; out of the vague distance of the lonely smoke a sound comes ringing. It rings once and dies away, then rings once again— how should one know that the sound too has no leisure to rest?