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Goryeo kayo - Song of Green Mountain
Identifier
027051
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
From the Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry – edited by Peter Lee
From Song of Green Mountain
Let's live, let's live,
Let's live on the green mountain!
With wild grapes and thyme,
Let's live on the green mountain!
Yalli yalli yallasyong yallari yalla
Cry, cry, birds,
Cry after you wake.
I've more sorrow than you
And cry after I wake.
Yalli yalli yallasyong yallari yalla
I see the bird passing, bird passing,
I see the passing bird beyond the waters.
With a mossy plow
I see the passing bird beyond the waters.
Yalli yalli yallasyong yallari yalla
I've spent the day
This way and that.
But where no man comes or goes,
How am I to pass the night?
Yalli yalli yallasyong yallari yalla
