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High,

Towers,

Towering,

Commerce abounds,

Hong Kong; promise of riches your promise.

Founded on opium trading and tears,

Colonial,

Jardine trade,

Boxer,

War.

Gone,

Those days,

Returned to,

Mother China,

Now healed – the blossoming heart of new.

Confident China, Modern China, fresh,

Is freedom there?

One system,

Two states,

Works?

Shop,

Every,

Thing you want,

New and the old,

Great Empire gone – strident new promise – now!

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