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The Slovenly Boy
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
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If you wear your hat on the side of your head,
You'll have a lazy wife 'tis said,
If a slouchy coat and slipshod feet,
You'll have a wife who loves to eat.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Slovenly Boy.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/33/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Slovenly Boy.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/33/.
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