Living
The Small Store Keeper
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
A wee little boy
Has opened a store,
In two equal parts
Are his front door,
A wee little table,
A wee little chair,
And ebony chop-sticks
And plate are there.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Small Store Keeper.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/20/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Small Store Keeper.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/20/.
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