Nature
The Small Pug Dog
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Nature
The small pug dog,
It jumped over there;
It has no tail,
And it has no hair.
It never will bark,
If a stranger come,
But runs here and there
Like a dog that is dumb.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Small Pug Dog.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/72/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Small Pug Dog.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/72/.
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