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Following the Rhymes of the Poem the Reverend Yeong Sent in Reply — Clear-Day Haze over the Mountain Market次韻英上人見和 山市晴嵐
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.
環巖已作翠巖重。繞樹還成玉樹蔥。若問僧庵何處是。靑羅一帶卷舒中。
It wraps the rocks, and already they are blue-green rocks fold upon fold It wraps the trees, and the jade-like trees grow thick instead If you ask where the monk's hermitage is It is within that one length of blue-green silk, drawn back and spread out again