A MOST astonishing thing -- <br />Seventy years have I lived; <br /> <br />(Hurrah for the flowers of Spring, <br />For Spring is here again.) <br /> <br />Seventy years have I lived <br />No ragged beggar-man, <br />Seventy years have I lived, <br />Seventy years man and boy, <br />And never have I danced for joy.<br /><br />William Butler Yeats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/imitated-from-the-japanese/
