POETRY: A Magazine of Verse
The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece,
And the footman sat upon the dining table
Holding the second housemaid on his knees—
Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived.
COUSIN NANCY
Miss Nancy Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them—
The barren New England hills—
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it
But they knew that it was modern.
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
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