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From this it would seem that the Koreans cannot be charged with a lack of imagination but rather with an exuberance of it. The following few lines to a mountain brook show that in his appreciation of nature the Korean is not far behind the more polished poet of the West.

I will add but a single illustration of the poetic element in Korean folk-lore. It is the legend of the casting of the great bell that hangs in the centre of Seoul.