Living
Chicken Skin
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
I went ten steps outside the gate,
Which brought me to the ditches,
And there I found some chicken skin,
To mend my leather breeches;
If there had been no chicken skin,
I could not mend my trousers thin.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Chicken Skin.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/56/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Chicken Skin.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/56/.
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