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Following the Rhymes of the Poem the Reverend Yeong Sent in Reply — Night Rain on the Xiaoxiang次韻英上人見和 瀟湘夜雨
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.
零陵江上雨連天。寄舶遊人思悄然。夜久吹燈猶獨坐。長年三老已酣眠。
On the river at Lingling (零陵) the rain reaches up to the sky The traveler who lodges his body in the boat is desolate in his thoughts The night grows deep, and he has blown out the lamp and still sits alone While the boatman and the steersman are already fast asleep