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  1. IMITATED FROM THE JAPANESE
  2.  
  3. A MOST astonishing thing --
  4. Seventy years have I lived;
  5.  
  6. (Hurrah for the flowers of Spring,
  7. For Spring is here again.)
  8.  
  9. Seventy years have I lived
  10. No ragged beggar-man,
  11. Seventy years have I lived,
  12. Seventy years man and boy,
  13. And never have I danced for joy.
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