Living
The Magician
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
A big, dead snake is lying there,
It has no ears and it has no hair;
I breathe on it some magic air,
And it lives and is running everywhere.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Magician.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/74/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Magician.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/74/.
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