A JAPANESE IN LONDON.
" Tone Noguchi, the Jupaneso poet, now m London, -writes m the Daily News of his first day..in ; London; , "What an activity, what a crowd m Piccadilly Circus ! Whero are these .people going, and what purpose have they? I wonder,. I walked along the streets (I do not know what streets they were), as the other people walked. Presently I .felt a- terrible pain m my lega: I Was walking on different roads from ' those of Japan. The hard pavements made my legs senseless. 'Oh, • where is the real ground — where the kind earth I wish to touch 3' I exclaimed"l slipped into St. Jdmes* Park* Whten my feet really touched the real grbu'hd I* felt there was Something soft underneath. 'Why, green grass, even m winter, here! Oh! green grass m December."- '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLL, Issue 13305, 14 February 1914, Page 10
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136A JAPANESE IN LONDON. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLL, Issue 13305, 14 February 1914, Page 10
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