Living
The Camel-Back Bridge
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
If you chance to be crossing
The camel-back bridge,
Each step leads you up
Till you come to the ridge.
The lantern-grass floats
On the pond like a sail,
The silver-fish bites
At the gold-fish's tail.
The big-bellied frog
Sitting there on the rock,
Keeps constantly calling
Wa'rh wa, wa'rh wa.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Camel-Back Bridge.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/125/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Camel-Back Bridge.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/125/.
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