Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE IDIOT GIRL, by MARY F. JOHNSON


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THE IDIOT GIRL, by                    
First Line: Start not at her, who, in fantastic guise
Last Line: "they both are in, and will come out no more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Moncrieff, Mary F. Johnson
Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


Start not at her, who, in fantastic guise,
Comes wildly chanting in a dirge-like tone,
With big tears trembling in her vacant eyes,
And uncoifed tresses by the breezes blown.
Recoil not from the harmless idiot maid,
Who often from a rugged beldame creeps
To yon deserted cottage in the shade,
And its fallen stones, to guard the entrance, heaps.
There was the home where passed her early years
With parents now withdrawn to final rest,
Who proved how infant helplessness endears;
And of a numerous offspring loved her best.
Now wails she, as she rudely blocks the door,
"They both are in, and will come out no more."





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