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Replying Again to Minister Yi's Poems on the Eight Views, Following the Rhymes — Sails Returning to the Distant Harbor次韻復和李相國八景詩各 遠浦歸帆
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.
輕風引去海門滄。帆與孤舟孰大昂。悔我未同船客去。謾勞翹頸望微茫。
A light wind draws them toward the mouth of the blue sea Between the sail and the lone boat, which rises the higher I regret that I could not go along with the passengers aboard And for nothing I stretch my neck and gaze into the far distance