Song of Ch’oyong

Ch’oyong
Korean
13th century

 

Having caroused far into the night
In the moonlit capital,
I returned home and in my bed,
Behold four legs.

Two were mine;
Whose are the other two?
Formerly two were mine;
What shall be done now they are taken?

Translation by Peter H. Lee

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