When I had gone to the Kiyomizu Temple, I wrote this in the Waterfall Hall.
たきみれどけぶりもたゝず水しあればいかなる熾に水つかるらむ
| taki miredo keburi mo tatazu midu si areba ika naru oki ni midu tukaruramu |
To strike a spark I’ve tried, yet There’s not a wisp of smoke, By dint of the waters; What embers might lie Beneath the spume? |