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 1 I(20)| spirit were they reviled long ago in China, "The Divine Classic
 2 I    |       a story of thirty years ago.~   In Kaga I had a friend,
 3 I    |   feeling."~   I read a while ago, in the writings of Shinseisan,
 4 II   |    was sixty or seventy years ago but now everywhere is extravagance.
 5 II   |      confused like hemp. Long ago in Kaga a samurai asked
 6 II   |     wrote are now of the long ago.~   Deeply moved was the
 7 II   |  Until sixty or seventy years ago there was prosperity. Some
 8 III  |     the beggars.~   Ten years ago on the 17th day of the 12th
 9 IV   |   wise seems folly." Not long ago Itakura Suwo no Kami was
10 IV   |       the Adzuma Kagami. Long ago  ./. an old scholar told
11 V    |      see not the moon of long ago: The moon of to-day shines
12 V    |      not upon the men of long ago: The men of to-day and the
13 V    |    to-day and the men of long ago, Are like the flowing water.
14 V    |       of fifty or sixty years ago. In those days I had a friend
15 V    |    Chikugo no Kami some years ago:—Call no man stingy. If