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The tolling of the Gion temple bells

Echoes the impermanence of all things.

The brilliant colored flowers of its double-trunked tree

Reveal the truth that to flourish is to fall.

Like a passing dream on a springtime evening,

The strong are finally destroyed,

To end as dust before the wind.

-- Opening of the Heike Monogatari (13th century)