Living
Turning the Mill
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
The big dog's gone to the city,
The little dog's run away,
The egg has fallen and broken,
And the oil leaked out, they say,
But you be a roller,
And hull with power,
And I'll be a mill-stone
And grind the flour.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Turning the Mill.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/120/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Turning the Mill.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/120/.
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