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The Pond Where the Consort Fell落妃池
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 4 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.
楊妃外傳曰。貴妃生於蜀。誤墜池中。後貴呼爲落妃池。
The Yangfei waizhuan says: The Honored Consort was born in Shu, and by mishap she fell into a pond. Afterward, when she became noble, it was called the Pond Where the Consort Fell (落妃池).
太眞雖本出峩□〔⿱山眉〕。玉輦巡遊豈所期。一旦行宮西入蜀。忍看當日落飛池。
Though Taizhen (太眞) was indeed born at Emei (峩□), how should going on progress in a jade carriage have been what she wished? In one morning the traveling palace entered Shu in the west — could one bear to look that day upon the pond where the consort had fallen?