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Mayor Buma was the first to read the poem aloud, after which Elmar Kuiper himself recited it in both Frisian and Dutch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1981, when the company had been established in Leeuwarden for one hundred years, Koopmans also presented a gift to the city: the statue of the Fryske Hynder (Frisian Horse), which stands near the new poetry stone on the Nieuwestad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>do meist ite<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">do wolst al wer siedzje<br>de wurden \u00fat \u2019e hul barste litte<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">mar moatst earst werom<br>dyn gr\u00fbn r\u00east jaan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">waaks mar<br>bloei en rypje<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as it tiid is meist<br>it sied \u00fat \u2019e ieren slaan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">yn it fine sou fan dyn tinzen<br>fermealst de kerrels ta moal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">it daai riist en do meist ite<br>wat s\u00fbn foar dy is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Elmar Kuiper<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The poetry stone is part of the Leeuwarden Poetry Route, which now consists of 71 stones throughout the city. 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