U Tak 禹倬
scholar · Goryeo Korea · 1262–1342
A scholar of late Goryeo. The story goes that he walked into the palace carrying an axe to call the king to account. A few songs lamenting old age have come down under his name.
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early 14th century (recorded in a songbook of 1876)
A stick in one hand, a thorn branch in the other, I meant to block the road of age with thorns and beat off white hair with the stick. But white hair knew it first, and came by the short cut.
한 손에 막ᄃᆡ를 들고 ᄯᅩ 한 손에 ᄀᆞ싀를 쥐여
늙는 길 ᄀᆞ싀로 막고 오는 白髮을 ᄆᆡ로 티렷터니
白髮이 제 몬져 알고 즈럼ᄭᅴᆯ로 오도다"Song of Lamenting Old Age," in Gagok wollyu (1876)
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