Living
Bean Sprouts
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
Good bean sprouts,
The water dropping out;
Where's the wife that dares to drive her husband's father out?
He'd take up a stick,
And hit her a lick,
And she could only shake her sleeve and run off quick.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Bean Sprouts.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/81/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Bean Sprouts.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/81/.
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