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Following the Rhymes of the Poem the Reverend Yeong Sent in Reply — Wild Geese Alighting on the Level Sands次韻英上人見和 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.
紛紛已擾水葒花。更向沙汀拂拂斜。汝旣爲賓無特操。有誰容作主人家。
Already they have shaken the knotweed flowers into disorder And again they come slanting down, fluttering, to the sandbar You have become a guest already and have no constancy So who would allow you to be the master of the house
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有誰容作主人家 — Some read it as 「Who would receive you as a guest and be a master to you」. — the translator