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With Attending Censor Pak, Setting Out for Yangju, I Float a Boat on the Hwangsan River and Recite Offhand同朴侍御將向梁州。泛舟黃山江口占。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 12 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.
碧江澄淨不生波。輕漾蘭舟鏡裏過。訶遣紅裠君必悔。此間宜聽一聲歌。
The green river is clear and no waves rise; the magnolia boat sways lightly and passes through a mirror. You will surely repent having scolded the red skirts away, for here in this place it would be fitting to hear a single song.
Interlinear notes 1
密城妓樂來從。公怒遣。故云。
Singing girls and musicians of Milseong had come along, and the Duke in anger sent them away; hence these words.