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Subject: MORTICIANS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: With all our mirth, I doubt if we shall be
Last Line: Due to the corpses you have gone and seen to.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Corpses; Morticians; Old Age; Cadavers


BROTHERHOOD OF MORTICIANS, by JOHN+(2) BARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The story is told of the undertaker
Subject(s): Morticians


HUMORESQUE, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For -- he whose
Last Line: Poet, -- oblivious
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Morticians


PARISH, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God only knows what he'd been doing. Painting or sewing?
Last Line: Of them vanishing into the hills.
Subject(s): Death; Escapes; Morticians; Dead, The; Fugitives


WORDS TO AN APPRENTICE MORITICIAN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How now, even though she's nude, she keeps
Last Line: Let them glimpse someone familiar %holding her breath, an image that could last
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Corpses; Morticians