Yetgeul › Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) › Latter Collection, Book 6
Replying Again to Minister Yi's Poems on the Eight Views, Following the Rhymes — Wild Geese Alighting on the Level Sands次韻復和李相國八景詩各 平沙落雁
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.
平沙十里暝煙花。雁陣猶能映日斜。弟弟兄兄終不亂。當須曉喩鬩墻家。
The evening mist on ten li of level sand is like flowers Yet the flock of geese is still lit slantwise by the setting light The younger keeps to the younger and the elder to the elder, and in the end there is no disorder They ought to teach a lesson to the households that quarrel within their walls