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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. — The Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting相國嘗和示一首。予每複以二首。未知鈞鑑何如。惶恐惶恐。 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.

浦客何須蕩槳多。我憐全鏡碎於波。維舟側畔明如晝。細看秋蟲上薜蘿。

Traveler in the harbor, there is no need to ply the oar so much I am sorry to see the whole round mirror broken on the waves The place where the boat is moored is bright as day So that I see even the autumn insect climbing the ivy vine, and see it clearly