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HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 11 by EZRA POUND

Poet Analysis

First Line: CONSERVATRIX OF MILESIEN' / HABITS OF MIND AND FEELING
Last Line: TOLD HER WOULD FIT HER STATION.

"Conservatrix of Milesien"
Habits of mind and feeling,
Possibly. But in Ealing;
With the most bank-clerkly of Englishmen?

No, "Milesian" is an exaggeration.
No instinct has survived in her
Older than those her grandmother
Told her would fit her station.



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