Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1918 — Knitting Women [ARTICLE]

Knitting Women

By KATHLEEN NORRIS.

COf one million sweaters furnished by the Bed Cross to " Amari on soldiers, half were made by the hands of tho knitting women of America.”— January Report.) We are the knitting women; weaving swift Our webs of olive drab and navy gray; We are the women, keeping thought away By this ijew work of love, this eager gtft Through which our men, facing the bitter fight Under the stars of far and foreign lands, Shall know that still a million women’s hands Uphold them in the darkness and the night We are the knitting women, knitting fast A web of love ; our million hearts are sent As one, with ev*ry marching regiment Love’s own democracy is come at last High over stricken France the black smoke towers; Beneath it in the hurry and the noise Are eastern, western, northern, southern, boys, No longer yours or mine,—forever ours! We are the knitting women; weaving strong A web of prayer; our eyes with tears are dim. But. wife or mother, we shall search for him Across tne seas, morning and even-song. Lord God, —we pray—look down on what we do I Bless this our work, help us to play jour part The God of Battles —Father, still Thou art The God of waiting—waiting women, tool