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The Idiot Boy (Kipling)

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The Idiot Boy
by Rudyard Kipling

A parody of She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth. First published in The Muse among the Motors (1904).

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                                       Wordsworth.

He wandered down the mountain-grade
     Beyond the speed assigned —
A youth whom Justice often stayed
     And generally fined.

He went alone, and none might know
     If he could drive or steer;
Now he is in the ditch, and O!
     The differential gear!

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