Living
The Five Fingers (II)
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
This one's old,
This one's young,
This one has no meat,
This one's gone
To buy some hay,
And this one's on the street.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Five Fingers (II).” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/116/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Five Fingers (II).” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/116/.
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