Nature
The Cricket
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Nature
On the top of a mountain
A hemp stock was growing,
And up it a cricket was climbing.
I said to him, "Cricket,
Oh where are you going?"
He answered: "I'm going out dining."
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Cricket.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/2/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Cricket.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/2/.
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