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Margaret Vandergrift

1844-1913. Margaret Vandergrift is the pen name of Margaret Thomson Janvier . Her work includes The Absent-Minded Fairy, and Other Verses (1884); The Dead Doll, and Other Verses (1900); Under the Dog-Star (1900); and Umbrellas to Mend (1905).

The Dead Dolly

31 August 2005
Vol. 5, No. 2
poetry, classic, light verse, rhyme

You needn't be trying to comfort me,

I tell you my Dolly is dead!

There's no use in saying she isn't

With a crack like that in her head.