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Baby Is Sleeping
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
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My baby is sleeping,
My baby's asleep,
My flower is resting,
I'll give you a peep;
How cunning he looks
As he rests on my arm!
My flower's most charming
Of all them that charm.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Baby Is Sleeping.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/15/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Baby Is Sleeping.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/15/.
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