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We sailed across the silver seas And saw the sea-blue bowers, We saw the purple cherry trees, And all the foreign flowers, We travelled in a palanquin Beyond the caravan, And yet our hearts had never seen The Flower of Old Japan.

The Flower above all other flowers, The Flower that never dies; Before whose throne the scented hours Offer their sacrifice; The Flower that here on earth below Reveals the heavenly plan; But only little children know The Flower of Old Japan.

There, in the dim blue flowery plain

We wished with the magic glass again

To go to the Flower of the song's desire:

And o'er us the whole of the soft blue sky

Flashed like fire as the world went by,

And far beneath us the sea like fire

Flashed in one swift blue brilliant stream,

And the journey was done, like a change in a dream.