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Subject: CAPITALISTS & FINANCIERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DIRECTOR OF OBSOLETE SECURITIES, by MICHAEL TEIG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could stay here humming
Subject(s): Capitalists & Financiers


LESSER EPISTLES: A PANEGYRICAL TO MR. THOMAS SNOW, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Disdain not, snow, my humble verse to hear
Last Line: "there, take my tally of ten thousand pound."
Subject(s): Capitalists & Financiers; South Sea Bubble (financial Scandal)


ON A TRAVELLING SPECULATOR, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On scent of game from town to town he flew
Last Line: Stopped short -- and closed his triumphs in a jail.
Subject(s): Capitalists & Financiers


SCIENCE REVEALED: A DIVINE MISSION, by GEORGE EVELEIGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: If, then, the state will but assistance lend
Last Line: The company an extra dividend.
Subject(s): Capitalists & Financiers; Economics; Government; Missionaries & Missions