Mirrored Minds: A Thousand Years of Korean Verse by 9788993360486 - HTML preview
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The tree is diseased (shijo)
The tree is diseased;
no one rests in its pavilion.
When it stood tall and verdant, no one passed it by.
But the leaves
have fallen, the boughs are broken; not even birds perch there now.
* A political allegory on the fate of prominent men who fall from grace.