The most horrible sight I ever saw
Was the soul of a scare-crow, gaunt and queer,
Made of Humor, the Shadow of straw
And a foolish notion of Fear.
From: Carlin, Francis, The Cairn of Stars, 1920, Henry Holt and Company: New York, p. 96.
(https://archive.org/stream/cairnofstarspoem00macd#page/96/mode/2up)
Date: 1920
By: James Francis Carlin MacDonnell (1881-1944)
From Troubles of The World 
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