| T.S. Eliot (1888–1965). Prufrock and Other Observations. 1917. |
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| 8. Cousin Nancy |
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| 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 | 5 |
| Over the cow-pasture. | |
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| 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. | 10 |
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| Upon the glazen shelves kept watch | |
| Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith, | |
| The army of unalterable law. | |
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