SKKS VIII: 832

On the impermanence of things.

みな人のしりがほにしてしらぬかなかならずしぬるならひありとは

mina hito no
shirigao ni shite
shiranu kana
kanarazu shinuru
narai ari to wa
Everyone
Says that they know, yet
They do not, I feel:
That, without fail, to die
Is our fate…

Former Archbishop Jien
慈円

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