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Roaming to Maam with Two or Three Men of My Home Village與鄕黨二三子。遊馬巖。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former 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.
雙馬權奇出水涯。縣名從此得黃驪。詩人好古煩徵詰。來往漁翁豈自知。
Two splendid horses came forth from the water's edge, and from this the county got its name, Hwangnyeo (黃驪). The poet, loving old things, asks after it over and over, but how should the fisherman who passes to and fro know it himself?
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黃馬驪馬出水。故名之。
A yellow horse and a black horse came out of the water, and so it was named.