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 Imitated From The Japanese by William Butler Yeats 
						A most astonishing thing --Seventy years have I lived;
 
 (Hurrah for the flowers of Spring,
 For Spring is here again.)
 
 Seventy years have I lived
 No ragged beggar-man,
 Seventy years have I lived,
 Seventy years man and boy,
 And never have I danced for joy.
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