Living
The Tidy Woman
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
The tidy woman
Is always clean,
No dirt in her home
Is ever seen.
Her food is fit
For a king to eat,
And her hair and clothes
Are always neat.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Tidy Woman.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/97/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “The Tidy Woman.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/97/.
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