Living
What Is It?
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
It has both nose and eyes,
But it has not breathed since birth,
It cannot go to heaven,
And it will not stay on earth.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “What Is It?” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/64/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “What Is It?” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/64/.
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