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“In my young days,
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I had tasted only gladness,
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But loved to mount the top floor,
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But loved to mount the top floor,
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To write a song pretending sadness.
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“And now I’ve tasted
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Sorrow’s flavors, bitter and sour,
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And can’t find a word,
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And can’t find a word,
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But merely say, ‘What a golden autumn hour! ‘”
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Notes
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conviction, firm belief; being convinced.
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past masters, people having practiced skill.
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zest, keen enjoyment; gusto; relish.
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mellower, made softer or more genial by experience.
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joviality, the act of being merry, joyous, or jolly.
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incorrigible humor, sympathetic laughter which is so strong that it is beyond correction.
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heathen, pagan; irreligious person.
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the life of the present, living only for the present moment; not caring about the past or the future.
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envelop, combine in one wrapper; include.
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extract its essence, take out from life its essential element.
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a life hereafter, a life after this life that we are living.
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disciple, a follower who has learned to believe in the doctrine of his teacher.
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“Don’t know life —how know death? ”“未知生焉知死，”—Confucius’s Analect .
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bourgeois, of the class between the gentry and the laborers, a class addicted to comfort and respectability.
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