Living
Roast Pork
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
Roast, roast, Roast pig meat,
The second pot smells bad,
The big pot is sweet;
Come, Mrs. Wang, please,
And eat pig meat.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Roast Pork.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/129/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Roast Pork.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/129/.
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