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Subject: COLUMBIA RIVER (NORTH AMERICA)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` THE FIRE-MAIDEN AND THE SNOW-PEAKS; AN INDIAN LEGEND OF THE COLUMBIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loowit, the beautiful maiden
Last Line: Rolls proudly at their side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fire; Legends, Native American; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE SALMON GILLERS, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now the full tide swallows the sandspits
Last Line: Starring the river.
Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fish & Fishing; Salmon; Anglers


THE SEA-EAGLES OF COLUMBIA, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Columbia's eagles of the sea
Last Line: "have borne thy slogan: ""sail! Sail on!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Birds; Columbia River (north America); Eagles; Sea; Ocean