Jessie Pope

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 good-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.
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