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Following the Rhymes of the Poem the Reverend Yeong Sent in Reply — Sails Returning to the Distant Harbor次韻英上人見和 遠浦歸帆

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.

不歸淮汴卽瀛滄。問爾何之首自昂。瞥過眼前無幾頃。際天應獨水茫茫。

If they do not go back to the Huai (淮水) and the Bian (汴水), then it will be Yingzhou (瀛州) and Cangzhou (滄州) I ask you where you are bound, and you lift your head of yourself They pass across my sight in a glance, and in no long while At the sky's edge there must be only the water, faint and alone

Interlinear notes 1

唐書又有瀛滄二州。

In the History of the Tang (唐書) there are also the two districts of Yingzhou and Cangzhou.