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[Page 287]

Socks

Shining pins that dart and click
In the fireside's sheltered peace
Check the thoughts that cluster thick -
​20 plain and then decrease.

He was brave - well, so was I -
​Keen and merry, but his lip
Quivered when he said bood-bye -
​Purl the seam-stitch, purl and slip.

Never used to living rough,
​Lots of things he'd got to learn;
Wonder if he's warm enough -
Knit 2, catch 2, knit 1, turn.

Hark! The paper-boys again!
Wish that shout could be suppressed;
Keeps one always on the strain -
Knit off 9, and slip the rest.

Wonder if he's fighting now,
What he's done an' where he's been;
He'll come out on top somehow -
​Slip 1, knit 2, purl 14.

Jessie Pope

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