Living
The Old Woman
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
There was an old woman,
As I have heard tell,
She went to sell pie,
But her pie would not sell.
She hurried back home,
But her door-step was high,
And she stumbled and fell
And a dog ate her pie.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Old Woman.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/94/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Old Woman.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/94/.
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