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Girls’ Songs for Seafarers, III - by Hamish Maclaren

{ Poem }

I will knit him a foam-white jersey,
/ Soft as the breast of the mew;
/ Or, if he prefers, he
/ …

in hospital - by Tom Leonard

{ Poem }

I like seeing nurse frieda knitting
/ as I like watching my wife knitting
/ as I liked watching my mother knitting
/ though she was…

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