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

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Anonymous

The Black Crow

 

The black crow does not paint itself,

nor does the crane turn itself white.

From time past, from their sky-given

birth, black and white have been.

Here I am. My lover sees me.

Yet he talks of black and white.

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