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Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

by Isaac Taylor Headland

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A New Baby

GILT-WOOD mace,
And silvered things,
My grandfather plays,
And grandmother sings;
My grandmother sings till broad daylight,
And a baby comes to our home at night;
They place the child by the pot on the ground,
And it eats rice soup with a sucking sound.

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