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A SONG FROM THE FLOWER OF OLD JAPAN
Alfred Noyes
There when the sunset colours the streets
Everyone buys at wonderful stalls
Toys and chocolates, guns and sweets,
Ivory pistols, and Persian shawls;
Everyone’s pockets are crammed with gold;
Nobody ever grows tired and old,
And nobody calls you “Baby” there.
There with a hat like a round, white dish
Upside down on each pig-tailed head,
Jugglers offer you snakes and fish,
Dreams and dragons and gingerbread;
Beautiful books with marvellous pictures,
Painted pirates and streaming gore,
And everyone reads, without any strictures,
Tales he remembers for evermore.
