In Works of Lafcadio Hearn
The Legend of the Humming of the Sai-no-Kawara, by Lafcadio Hearn:
- But lo! the teacher Jizô appears,
- All gently he comes, and says to the weeping infants:
- "Be not afraid, dears! be never fearful!
- Poor little souls, your lives were brief indeed!
- Too soon you were forced to make the weary journey to the Meido,
- The long journey to the region of the dead!
- Trust to me! I am your father and mother in the Meido,
- Father of all children in the region of the dead."
- And he folds the skirt of his shining robe about them;
- So graciously takes he pity on the infants.
- To those who cannot walk he stretches forth his strong shakujô,
- And he pets the little ones, caresses them, takes them to his loving bosom.
- So graciously he takes pity on the infants.
- Namo Jizo Bosatsu!
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