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Colophon to the Poem on the Valley's Name洞名詩呈後洞朴僕射，朴學士，李學士 跋尾
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 5 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.
朴僕射見之曰。此洞本稱萬石。盖因多石而號之也。予抵掌絶倒曰。雖命名之意不同。無一字有異者。是豈素定於冥然而不使之變改耶。人皆已稱。則吾之命名。非必敎而使道也。不亦快乎。
Vice Director Bak saw this and said, 'This valley was originally called Manseok (萬石). It was named so because there are many stones.'
I clapped my hands and laughed until I fell over, and said, 'The sense in which the name was given is different, yet not one character differs. How should this not be something settled beforehand in the unseen and not to be changed? Everyone had already called it so, and my naming it was not a matter of teaching them to say it. Is this not splendid as well?'