The Great Admiral Jang Bo-Goh

He was born not noble but humble at Silla,

But a boy had the dream the great dream for country.

When blindly he left his desolate and old Zillah,

He would be the great man on the naval history,

Young and small boy went to Tang

And grew to go around the fields with his mustang.

 

Through the many battle fields, he mastered

The long spear on the horse, and famous as an archer.

He promoted the general at the army, but the bastard

Pirates robed the Silla and be the catcher,

To the boys, and the kidnapped were sold as slaves,

To sweep the pirates, he pledged the waves.

 

He resigned and returned to the mother country,

And be the fleet commander and guarded the coast.

His fleet flied liked the winds, to the history

And the legend, the many stories, as a host

Of the Asian Sea, he left. The poet

Praised him, and the many merits that show’ it.

 

He is composed of the glorious naval pedigree,

Jang Bo-Goh, Wang Geon, Yi Sun-Shin and the other

Admirals, they not passed away, the memory

Of him, the Navy’s eternal father.

The old days, Du-Mu praised him his merits,

Today a bard praise the navy who inherits.