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« on: September 08, 2009, 08:43:32 AM » |
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DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 13, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
Knitting Socks for Our Boys.
A correspondent of the Independent makes a rhymed appeal to the Sock Knitters, of which the following is a part:
Away with the "Shetland" that busied our hands
Last year, when the autumn the forests were dyeing!
Away with the "zephyrs" too bright and too soft
For our brave hearted boys to the battlefield flying!
The knitting our grandmothers taught us to do,
With fingers as patient as our were unsteady,
The coarse, homely wool, long neglected, ignored,
Now rallies our efforts, and finds us all ready!
All ready! "All forward!" Come swell the fair ranks;
Dear girls, we are knitting the Union together!
There's enough of staunch timber about the old ship;
We have made up our minds the storm to outweather.
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