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Roaming at Myoamsa (妙巖寺), Matching the Rhymes of Recorder Hong's Poem on Wigeum Rock (位金巖), Hung on a Board遊妙巖寺。次板上洪書記題位金巖詩韻。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 17 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.
妙巖高揖位金巖。偸覷淸都愧眼凡。幽澗水渟猿掬飮。陽崖草活鹿來銜。僧高只對虛心竹。寺古空看合抱杉。聞說將軍眞李牧。區區安數禁中諴。
Myoam bows high to Wigeum Rock, and peeping secretly at the clear sky, is ashamed that its eyes are commonplace. Water gathers in the hidden stream, and monkeys scoop it up to drink; grass comes alive on the sunlit cliff, and deer come to crop it. The monk is lofty, and faces only the hollow bamboo; the temple is old, and idly looks on cedars of an armspan's girth. I hear the general was truly like Li Mu (李牧); why pettily reckon up the flattering crowd of the palace?
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新羅將軍位金來此巖。築石城禦敵。至今猶在。故號位金巖。
The Silla general Wigeum (位金) came to this rock and built a stone fort to hold off the enemy, and it remains to this day. For this reason it is called Wigeum Rock.