Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and broke them, <br />Rode across the hills and broke them-- <br />The barren New England hills-- <br />Riding to hounds <br />Over the cow-pasture. <br /> <br />Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked <br />And danced all the modern dances; <br />And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, <br />But they knew that it was modern. <br /> <br />Upon the glazen shelves kept watch <br />Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith, <br />The army of unalterable law.<br /><br />Thomas Stearns Eliot<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cousin-nancy/
