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 1 I   | hundreds or thousands of years ago. I fancy that to the Western
 2 I   |   music of many thousand years ago, - weird music of drums
 3 III |   designer some thousand years ago: the effect is that of a
 4 III |      country thirty-five years ago: "Its commanding position,
 5 III |      not have discovered, ages ago, the secret of making pleasure
 6 VII |     NEARLY three hundred years ago, Captain John Saris, visiting
 7 VII |       the government two years ago of $56,000,000 for the purchase
 8 VII |        of twelve hundred years ago, to the time of the earliest
 9 VII |        of twelve hundred years ago, wearing a picturesque cap,
10 VII |      was fifteen hundred years ago. Now, could the good Emperor
11 VII |   remain unguessed. Five years ago I wrote that a little acquaintance
12 VIII|    before, - ~        How long ago I may not know:~    But
13 VIII|      together~Knotted was long ago by some love in a former
14 VIII|       I first attempted, years ago, to learn the outlines of
15 X   |        boy died thirteen years ago, when he was six years old."~