Living

The Pagoda

by Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes traditional (collected in Peking, 1890s)

Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)

Living

The dragon pagoda,
It touches the sky,
The dragon pagoda,
Thirteen stories high.

MLA

Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Pagoda.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/35/.

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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Pagoda.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/35/.

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