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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAIDEN LADY, by KATHERINE KELLY WOODLEY
First Line: She built herself a little house
Last Line: Go toddling 'cross the floor.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural
First Line: She built herself a little house
Last Line: Go toddling 'cross the floor.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural
She built herself a little house
Upon a quiet street
And lives a lonely, sterile life,
Sufficient and complete.
No guests have ever entered there
But strangers passing by
Report the oddest kind of sounds, --
A word, a kiss, a sigh.
And oftentimes on stormy nights,
Above the thunder's roar
They hear a ghostly pit-a-pat
Go toddling 'cross the floor.
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