Living
Visitors
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
The wolf has come,
The tiger has come,
The old priest follows,
Beating a drum.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Visitors.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/83/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Visitors.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/83/.
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