Poems (Eliot, 1920)/Cousin Nancy
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Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy EllicottStrode across the hills and broke them,Rode across the hills and broke them—The barren New England hills—Riding to houndsOver the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smokedAnd 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 watchMatthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,The army of unalterable law.