Living
Little Bound Feet
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
There was a little girl,
Who would run upon the street,
She took rice and changed it
For good things to eat.
Her mother lost control of her
Until she bound her feet,
But now she's just as good a girl
As you will ever meet.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Little Bound Feet.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/61/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Little Bound Feet.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/61/.
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