Living
A Dilemma
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
Hard worm beans
Without any bother,
A wife he has married
And doesn't want his mother.
He must leave his mother,
Or quarrel with his wife,
And thus they are separated
All their life.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “A Dilemma.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/41/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “A Dilemma.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/41/.
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