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Once Upon a Time and Other Child-Verses
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It's the rosiest peach in the whole of Japan;
And it's coming a-floating, a-floating to me.
"Now, here is a feast for my darling old man,
Oh, the great Shogun not a finer can get!
Some stewed lily-bulbs, and this beautiful peach,
When he comes home from work, before
him I'll set."
Soon down from the mountain the old man
came,
And fast on his back his fagot was bound.
"Oh! hasten you, husband," his loving wife
cried,
And taste this beautiful peach that I found."
But just as he took it the peach split in
twain,
And a fat little baby with raven-black hair
Was cradled right in the heart of the peach,
And lay a-twinkling and blinking there.
"Oh! you brave little boy, you shall be our
own son;
And Momotaro shall have for a name,
Or Little Peachling, since out of a peach,
You dear little fellow, this morning you
came."
Oh! the rice-fields blossomed for twenty years,
While the gurgling old river amongst them
ran;
Oh! for twenty years grew the slim bamboo,
And Little Peachling was grown to a man.
"Some millet-dumplings pray make for me,"
To his good foster-mother he said one
day,
"And off to the ogres' castle I'll go,
And the whole of their treasure will bring
away.
"As thick in the ogres' treasure-vaults
The jewels are lying as sea-shore sands;
With blue snow-gates on the mountain-top,
The ogres' castle all proudly stands —
"With blue snow-gates that are stronger than
steel;
But I will enter, and bring to you
The wealth from the ogres' treasure-vaults,
Hung over with pearls, like flowers with
dew."
"I have made you the dumplings," his good
mother said,
"But I fear lest the ogres should do you
a harm."
But the little Peachling danced gayly away,
With the millet-dumplings under his arm.
A dog leapt out of a cluster of pines:
"And what have you there, Little Peachling,
pray?"
"The best millet-dumplings in all Japan,
And I'm to the ogres' castle away."
"For one of your dumplings with you I'll go,
And the ogres' castle will help subdue."
"Well, you can bark at the castle-gate;
So here is a dumpling, friend dog, for you."
An ape swung down from a roadside tree:
"Kia, kia, what have you, I say?"
"The best millet-dumplings in all Japan,
And I'm to the ogres' castle away."
"One of your dumplings pray give to me,
And the ogres' castle I'll help subdue."
"Well, you can climb o'er the castle-gate;
So here is a dumpling, friend ape, for you."
"Ken, ken=," cried a pheasant, "and what have
you there,
Little Peachling, tucked in your girdle, I
pray?"
"The best millet-dumplings in all Japan,
And I'm to the ogres' castle away."
"For one of your dumplings with you I'll go,
And the ogres' castle will help subdue,"
"Well, you can fly o'er the castle-gate;
So here is a dumpling, friend pheasant, for
you.
Oh, the castle stood high on the mountain-
top,
And over its turrets a hurricane blew;
And it's coming a-floating, a-floating to me.
"Now, here is a feast for my darling old man,
Oh, the great Shogun not a finer can get!
Some stewed lily-bulbs, and this beautiful peach,
When he comes home from work, before
him I'll set."
Soon down from the mountain the old man
came,
And fast on his back his fagot was bound.
"Oh! hasten you, husband," his loving wife
cried,
And taste this beautiful peach that I found."
But just as he took it the peach split in
twain,
And a fat little baby with raven-black hair
Was cradled right in the heart of the peach,
And lay a-twinkling and blinking there.
"Oh! you brave little boy, you shall be our
own son;
And Momotaro shall have for a name,
Or Little Peachling, since out of a peach,
You dear little fellow, this morning you
came."
Oh! the rice-fields blossomed for twenty years,
While the gurgling old river amongst them
ran;
Oh! for twenty years grew the slim bamboo,
And Little Peachling was grown to a man.
"Some millet-dumplings pray make for me,"
To his good foster-mother he said one
day,
"And off to the ogres' castle I'll go,
And the whole of their treasure will bring
away.
"As thick in the ogres' treasure-vaults
The jewels are lying as sea-shore sands;
With blue snow-gates on the mountain-top,
The ogres' castle all proudly stands —
"With blue snow-gates that are stronger than
steel;
But I will enter, and bring to you
The wealth from the ogres' treasure-vaults,
Hung over with pearls, like flowers with
dew."
"I have made you the dumplings," his good
mother said,
"But I fear lest the ogres should do you
a harm."
But the little Peachling danced gayly away,
With the millet-dumplings under his arm.
A dog leapt out of a cluster of pines:
"And what have you there, Little Peachling,
pray?"
"The best millet-dumplings in all Japan,
And I'm to the ogres' castle away."
"For one of your dumplings with you I'll go,
And the ogres' castle will help subdue."
"Well, you can bark at the castle-gate;
So here is a dumpling, friend dog, for you."
An ape swung down from a roadside tree:
"Kia, kia, what have you, I say?"
"The best millet-dumplings in all Japan,
And I'm to the ogres' castle away."
"One of your dumplings pray give to me,
And the ogres' castle I'll help subdue."
"Well, you can climb o'er the castle-gate;
So here is a dumpling, friend ape, for you."
"Ken, ken=," cried a pheasant, "and what have
you there,
Little Peachling, tucked in your girdle, I
pray?"
"The best millet-dumplings in all Japan,
And I'm to the ogres' castle away."
"For one of your dumplings with you I'll go,
And the ogres' castle will help subdue,"
"Well, you can fly o'er the castle-gate;
So here is a dumpling, friend pheasant, for
you.
Oh, the castle stood high on the mountain-
top,
And over its turrets a hurricane blew;
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Так получилось, что книга ко мне попала в тяжелый эмоциональный кризис и многое мне дала. Написано актуально, тут многих полезных вещей, никакого злоу...
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