• Out of the old house, Nancy—moved up into the new;
    All the hurry and worry is just as good as through.
    Only a bounden duty remains for you and I—
    And that ’s to stand on the doorstep here, and bid the old house good-by.

    What a shell we ’ve lived in, these nineteen or twenty years!
    Wonder it had n’t smashed in, and tumbled about our ears;
    Wonder...

  • Out of the old house, Nancy—moved up into the new;
    All the hurry and worry is just as good as through.
    Only a bounden duty remains for you and I—
    And that ’s to stand on the doorstep here, and bid the old house good-bye.

    What a shell we ’ve lived in, these nineteen or twenty years!
    Wonder it hadn’t smashed in, and tumbled about our ears;
    Wonder...