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The Minister Has Always Replied by Showing Me a Single Poem, While I Answer Each Time with Two; I Do Not Know How It Will Seem to His Discerning Judgment. In Awe, in Awe. — Night Rain on the Xiaoxiang相國嘗和示一首。予每複以二首。未知鈞鑑何如。惶恐惶恐。 蕭湘夜雨
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.
洒來幸是夜深天。臥聽蕭蕭尙寂然。無賴江邊斑竹在。遽能驚我醉中眠。
The scattering rain comes, happily, from a sky deep in the night Lying down to hear it rustle, it is quiet after all Perversely there are mottled bamboos by the river And all at once they startle me awake from my drunken sleep