there are too many versions of ”A good day to die,”

there are too many versions of "A good day to die," the first version has appeared in "Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west, and the Final Surrender of Sitting Bull" published in 1881, author Judson Elliott Walker relates an account from Low Dog, as told to Captain Howe of the Standing Rock Agency: "I [Low Dog] called to my men: 'This is a good day to die; follow me'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_good_day_to_die

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Old age is nothing but remembering
How rich the green fields looked
Despite the rack of rain

• • Nancy Wood, Many winters
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老年とは、雨が降らなくても
緑の丘がいかに豊かに見えたかを覚えていること
それ以外のなにものでもないのだと
――Nancy Wood, Many winters