on the withered mountain there is water enough to drink
kareyama nomu hodo no mizu wa arite
1925–1932 · Years of mendicant wandering
Sōmokutō · The Begging Bowl (Hachi no ko)
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Even on the winter mountain, withered utterly bare, there flows water enough to drink. That much is enough. Mountain and self alike, at the very last margin, are duly moistened.