"You're lost: deny it, if you can!

You want to know

The way to go?

There's no such place as Old Japan.

"You want to seek—

No, no, don't speak!

You mean you want to steal a fan.

You want to see

The fields of tea?

They don't grow tea in Old Japan.

"In China, well

Perhaps you'd smell

The cherry bloom: that's if you ran

A million miles

And jumped the stiles,

And never dreamed of Old Japan.

"What, palanquins,

And mandarins?

And, what d'you say, a blue divan?

And what? Hee! hee!

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