Songs of the Kisaeng: Courtesan Poetry of the Last Korean Dynasty by Hwang Jini et al. - HTML preview

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Chongum

As Evening Entered

 

As evening entered our mountain town

a faint howl followed from a distance.

I opened my door of woven branches. One

cold light of the sky fell on me.

Howl, dog, the moon sleeps

stretched over the empty mountainside.

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