“Imitated from the Japanese” by W. B. Yeats

“Imitated from the Japanese” by W. B. Yeats 🇮🇪 (13 Jun 1865 – 28 Jan 1939)

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.