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First Line: A pocket-handkerchief to hem
Last Line: And after work is play!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Stitching
Subject(s): Sewing; Time


A POCKET handkerchief to hem --
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
How many stitches it will take
Before it's done, I fear.

Yet set a stitch and then a stitch,
And stitch and stitch away,
Till stitch by stitch the hem is done --
And after work is play!





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