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The Idiot Boy
| The Idiot Boy written by Rudyard Kipling |
| A parody of "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" by William Wordsworth. First published in The Muse among the Motors (1904). | Link to further information |
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!