Guy Wetmore Carryl,
The Judicious Judgment of Quite Contrary Mary
(1900)
“ And spent her life in tending flowers. She had a little hedge of box, Azalias, and a bed of tansy, A double row of hollyhocks, And every different kind of pansy: And, though so innocent of look, She’d lovers by the scores and dozens, And learned, by talking with the cook, To tell her friends that they were her cousins. ”
