Living
The Wedding
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
Beat the drum, beat the drum,
We're coming in a chair,
Who will clear the way
For the girl that's coming here?
Beat the drum, beat the drum,
See, the chair is coming,
Ho'rh ho! clear the way!
Don't you hear the drumming?
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Wedding.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/123/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Wedding.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/123/.
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