Living
The Clothes Vender
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
While out selling clothes,
As our uncle must do,
He married a wife
Who is aunt to us two.
She loves to eat cake,
As you'll readily see,
For she's left but a half one
For brother and me.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Clothes Vender.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/68/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Clothes Vender.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/68/.
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