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Subject: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BETWEEN TWO STOOLS, by JOHN HEATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ned will not keep the jewish sabbath, not he
Last Line: He halts betwixt them both and so keeps neither.
Subject(s): Churches; Jews; Religious Freedom; Cathedrals; Judaism


HOW THE WOMEN WENT FROM DOVER; 1662, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tossing spray of cocheco's fall
Last Line: She smoothed the thorns with her bleeding feet.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Freedom; Quakers


THE QUAKER ALUMNI, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the well-springs of hudson, the sea-cliffs of maine
Last Line: And winnow in mercy our good from the ill!
Subject(s): Alumni; Friends, Religious Society Of; Newport, Rhode Island; Religious Freedom; Quakers