Living
Coming from the Fair
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
Coming from the fair!
Coming from the fair!
We bought a little bottle
For our baby over there;
Alas! for we broke it,
And we tried to buy another,
But the shops were all closed,
So we hurried home to mother.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Coming from the Fair.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/29/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Coming from the Fair.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/29/.
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