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Minister Yi Replied Again to the Poems on the Eight Views of Qianzhou and Sent Them to Me, So I Follow His Rhymes — The Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting次韻李相國復和虔州八景詩來贈 洞庭秋月

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.

水國秋涼爽氣多。氷輪正好映寒波。波心俯鑑無勞望。不用登山費挽蘿。

Autumn is cool in the water country and the bracing air is abundant The moon like a wheel of ice just now shines well on the chill waves It is enough to look down into the heart of the waves, there is no cause to strain the gaze There is no need to spend the labor of climbing the mountain and pulling at the vines