Social Commentaries
Of What Use Is a Girl?
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Social Commentaries
We keep a dog to watch the house,
A pig is useful, too;
We keep a cat to catch a mouse,
But what can we do
With a girl like you?
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Of What Use Is a Girl?” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/4/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Of What Use Is a Girl?” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/4/.
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