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Written at Bagyeon (朴淵)題朴淵。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 14 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.
龍娘感笛嫁先生。百載同歡便適情。猶勝臨邛新寡婦。失身都爲聽琴聲。
The dragon maiden, moved by the flute, was married to the master, and for a hundred years they delighted together, and it was to their mind. Still it was better than the newly widowed woman of Imgong (臨邛), whose losing of herself was all because she had heard the sound of a geomungo.
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昔有朴進士者。吹笛於淵上。龍女感之。殺其夫。引之爲壻。故號朴淵。
Long ago a man called Licentiate Bak (朴) played the flute above the pool. The dragon maiden was moved, killed her own husband, and drew him in to make him her son-in-law. For this reason it is called Bagyeon.