Living
Beans
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
Pull up your black beans,
Pull up your brown,
Then light your lamp
When the sun goes down.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Beans.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/32/.
Chicago
Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Beans.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/32/.
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