눈

윤동주

지난 밤에
눈이 소오복이 왔네

지붕이랑
길이랑 밭이랑
추워한다고
덮어 주는 이불인가 봐

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Snow

Yun Dong-Ju

Last night
snow fell abundantly:

on the rooftops,
on the paths, on the farms.
Perhaps it is a blanket
that keeps us from the cold.

That's why
it falls only in the chill of winter.

translated by: Chae-Pyong Song & Anne Rashid