Excerpt from Kakemono: Japanese Sketches

But the heavy-lidded eyes droop lower, and the slow smile is still. Only the Cherry-trees send their pale pink petals ¿oating downward into the bronzed lap. And the murmuring water runs more swiftly.

Immutable he sits, and still enduring, unchanging, though the sea destroy his temples and the earth quakes rock about his feet. Buddha on his lotus-leaf is still.

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