<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Socks</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Shining</span> pins that dart and click</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In the fireside's sheltered peace</p><p class="line">Check the thoughts that cluster thick --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>20 plain and then decrease.</em></p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">He was brave -- well, so was I --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Keen and merry, but his lip</p><p class="line">Quivered when he said good-bye --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>Purl the seam-stitch, purl and slip.</em></p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Never used to living rough,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Lots of things he'd got to learn;</p><p class="line">Wonder if he's warm enough --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>Knit 2, catch 2, knit 1, turn.</em></p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Hark! The paper-boys again!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Wish that shout could be suppressed;</p><p class="line">Keeps one always on the strain --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>Knit off 9, and slip the rest.</em></p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Wonder if he's fighting now,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">What he's done an' where he's been;</p><p class="line">He'll come out on top, somehow --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>Slip 1, knit 2, purl 14.</em></p></div><p class="byline">-- Jessie Pope.</p></body></html> · Great War