I quoted this from Robert Hass' Now and Then, which is where I originally read it.
"Here's one from a beautiful sequence called The Nine Songs of Kosan. It was written in the sixteenth century by the great Korean Confucian philosopher Yi I. The songs were composed after he had retired from government service and was living in Kosan, a place equivalent perhaps to the Blue Ridge mountains. Here is the last poem in the sequence:
Where shall we find the ninth song?
Winter has come to Munsan;
The fantastic rocks
are buried under snow.
Nobody comes here for pleasure now.
They think there is nothing to see."
- Now and Then by Robert Hass
"Here's one from a beautiful sequence called The Nine Songs of Kosan. It was written in the sixteenth century by the great Korean Confucian philosopher Yi I. The songs were composed after he had retired from government service and was living in Kosan, a place equivalent perhaps to the Blue Ridge mountains. Here is the last poem in the sequence:
Where shall we find the ninth song?
Winter has come to Munsan;
The fantastic rocks
are buried under snow.
Nobody comes here for pleasure now.
They think there is nothing to see."
- Now and Then by Robert Hass