The Idiot Boy (Kipling)
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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