Living
Friends of the House
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
The thieving old magpie has taken our food,
The chicken eats millet as if it were good,
The faithful old watch-dog looks after the house,
And the cat has come over to catch us a mouse.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Friends of the House.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/47/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Friends of the House.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/47/.
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