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H! Kwannon, Patron of this hill, The maid, for whom I pine, Is obstinate and wayward, like The gusts around thy shrine. What of those prayers of mine?

Toshi-yori is supposed to have been the son of the writer of ; he probably lived early in the twelfth century. Hatsuse is a mountain village near Nara, in the Province of Yamato; the temple there is dedicated to Kwannon, Goddess of Mercy, ‘who looketh for ever down above the sound of prayer.’