WHEN PRUDENCE KNITS
Be she dancing, resting, flitting, Dainty Ptue is ever knittingKnitting, knitting, constantly. , In tho hovJse or oft the highway, In the town or rural byway, Openly, ov in a sly way. Click her needles merrily. Be she m6toring or shopping, Not a stitch or needle, dropping. Still she knits and knits, away. When she'.s laughing, when she's grieving", Out a-calling or receiving, Knits she on past all believing From the break to set of day. Mufflers grow thro', lengthy sermons For the Belgians, Frenth, and Germans ; Sweaters, waistcoats, shirts galore; Wristlet, s6ck, and woolly mitten — Every minute she carl fit in Is devoted to hei knittin' For the needy man of war, Whence it< is, tho' I adore her As old Petrarch loved his Laura, I don't dare to mention it, Lest my soft interrogation, Voicing ardent aspiration For a lifelong 6onju'gation, Shall elicit only " KNIT !" John Kendrick Bangs. New York Life.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1915, Page 9
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155WHEN PRUDENCE KNITS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1915, Page 9
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