At Kiyomizu-dera

Epigrammata XVIII

Kiyomizu-dera, Japan

Explain a woman of Japan
Much better than this story can:
Back when in Kiyomizu-dera
To leap its stage although quite far
And live, your wish would come to you--
Two hundred all four stories flew;
A woman jumped two times for sure
A deadly fall could not defer
Her wish at first not granted her.