IMITATED FROM THE JAPANESE
 
 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.