To-, S.W.Lee.-
-이상화-
What use is poem, what use is to say,
Only, when I would embrace thee again, never more?
Without affection, lonesomely dangerously, spending this day.
Thou went too early in the cosmosic circulation.
Thy bequest, that thou planted in my heart deep,
Unavailingly yet croons chasing the days of glorification.
O Honey! Why my rosy face paled like the moon
And my thoughtful soul whenever look for thee?
But’t was in vain, thy country was too dark and ruin.
Only night, I build thy heavenly figure adumbral
Upon my vision’s sighful canvas.
And then, my eyes was a stormed channel.
O void forgetfulness! May I rest in thy pond deep.
And I would no more want, except one thing
Let me sleep without wake let me sleep…..
-From the “Bereft Soul”-
