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The Little Sister
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
My little golden sister
Rides a golden horse slow,
And we'll use a golden whip
If the horse doesn't go.
A little gold fish
In a gold bowl, we see,
And a gold colored bird
On a gold blossomed tree.
A gold plated god
In a gold temple stands,
With a gold plated baby
In her gold plated hands.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Little Sister.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/76/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Little Sister.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/76/.
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