| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Instruction | | By Hazel Hall |
| | From “Repetitions”
MY hands that guide a needle | |
| In their turn are led | |
| Relentlessly and deftly, | |
| As a needle leads a thread. | |
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| Other hands are teaching | 5 |
| My needle; when I sew | |
| I feel the cool, thin fingers | |
| Of hands I do not know. | |
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| They urge my needle onward, | |
| They smooth my seams, until | 10 |
| The worry of my stitches | |
| Smothers in their skill. | |
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| All the tired women, | |
| Who sewed their lives away, | |
| Speak in my deft fingers | 15 |
| As I sew today. | | | | |
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