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Subject: STATE RIGHTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE [DECEMBER 2O, 1860], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She has gone, - she has left us in passion and pride
Last Line: Remember the pathway that leads to our door!
Subject(s): Patriotism; South Carolina; State Rights; War; Secession


JUDGMENT SEATS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O little flower, / o tiny golden sun
Last Line: Some judgment seat!
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Judges; Judgments; State Rights; Secession


MY MARYLAND, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The despot's heel is on thy shore
Last Line: Maryland, my maryland!
Variant Title(s): Maryland! My Maryland;maryland
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Maryland; Patriotism; State Rights; United States - History; Liberty; Secession


SECESSION, by T. A. R. NELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What pen can trace, with just impression
Last Line: "be ""damned to everlasting fame!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Thomas A. R.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fame; State Rights; U.s. - History; Confederacy; Reputation; Secession


STATE OF THE UNION: 17. ONE COUNTRY, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They draw waters upcountry from the rivers
Last Line: To turn waste regions into garden cities
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; State Rights


STATE OF THE UNION: 4. RETURN OF THE HEROES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have all come back as if nothing
Last Line: They were not among the countless dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Generals; Heroism; Homecoming; State Rights; War


THE OLD COVE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As vonce I valked by a dismal swamp
Last Line: "all that I axed vos, let me alone."
Variant Title(s): Let Us Alone;all We Ask Is To Be Let Alone
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); State Rights; United States - History; Confederacy; Secession