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Subject: DEWEY, GEORGE (1837-1917)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEWEY AND HIS MEN, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glistering high in the midnight sky
Last Line: And the wildfire lights as dewey fights on the broad manila bay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Spanish-american War (1898)


DEWEY AT MANILA [MAY 1, 1898], by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the very verge of may
Last Line: Must be wise as well as brave.
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898)


DEWEY IN MANILA BAY [MAY 1, 1898], by RICHARD VORHEES RISLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He took a thousand islands and he didn't lose a man
Last Line: For fighting's part of what a yankee knows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Risley, R. V.
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898)


DEWEY IN WAITING, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God of our fathers! Guard his ways
Last Line: Imperiled cause, a country shamed?
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898)


MANILA, by EUGENE FITCH WARE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, dewy was the morning, upon the first of may
Last Line: And dewey feel discouraged? I dew not think we dew
Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill
Variant Title(s): Manila Ba
Subject(s): Dewey, George (1837-1917); Manila, Philippines