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Holding thorns in one hand
and a stick in the other,
I tried to block with thorns the road to age
and bat white hair with my stick.
But the grey hair knew better
and slipped by me taking a short cut.
This poem is in the public domain. Classical Korean Poetry: More Than 600 Verses since the 12th Century (Fremont, California: Asian Humanities Press, 1994).