Wolmyeong 月明師
mid-8th century · Seorabeol (Gyeongju), Silla · For the sister who died before him
The road of life and death is here, and you faltered, and went without even finishing the words "I am going." Like leaves that fall here and there in an early autumn wind, we were born on one branch, and I do not know where you have gone.
生死路隱 此矣有阿米次肹伊遣 吾隱去內如辭叱都 毛如云遣去內尼叱古 於內秋察早隱風未 此矣彼矣浮良落尸葉如 一等隱枝良出古 去奴隱處毛冬乎丁"Song for a Dead Sister" (Jemangmaega), in the Samguk yusa
In the same thread
Bede Beda
731 · Jarrow, Northumbria, England · Given as the words of one of King Edwin's men, asked whether to accept the new faith: a comparison drawn from a feast by the fire on a winter night
A single sparrow comes and flies swiftly through the hall. It comes in by one door and soon goes out by another. While it is inside, the winter storm does not touch it; but after the briefest moment of calm it slips from your sight, returning from winter into winter. So this life of man appears for a little while.
adueniens unus passerum domum citissime peruolauerit; qui cum per unum ostium ingrediens, mox per aliud exierit. Ipso quidem tempore, quo intus est, hiemis tempestate non tangitur, sed tamen paruissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso, mox de hieme in hiemem regrediens, tuis oculis elabitur. Ita haec uita hominum ad modicum apparetEcclesiastical History of the English People, book 2, chapter 13
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