Translations:Yirmi Sekizinci Lem'a/55/en

In fifty years time, out of the fifty who are now laughing and enjoying themselves with such joy five will be bent and stooping seventy-year-olds, while forty-five will have rotted in the graveyard. Those beautiful features and joyful smiles will have been transformed into their opposites. According to the rule of “All that is coming is close,” since it is to some degree true that things that are going to happen in the near future are seen to have already arrived, then surely what you see is not imagination.