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Subject: WILLIAMITE WARS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLAD OF THE WILLIAMITE WARS: THE BOYNE WATER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "july the first, of a morning clear, one thousand six hundred and ninety"
Last Line: It was not in their power to stop what the rabble they designed
Subject(s): "boyne, Battle Of The (1690);" Williamite Wars


THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE (4), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "july the first, in oldbridge town"
Last Line: Of king william that crossed the boyne water
Subject(s): "boyne (river), Ireland;boyne, Battle Of The (1690);" Williamite Wars


THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE; FROM TWO OLD VERSIONS OF THE BALLAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: July the first of a morning fair
Last Line: As with blow and shout we put to rout / our enemies over the water
Subject(s): "boyne (river), Ireland;boyne, Battle Of The (1690);" Williamite Wars


THE RIVER BOYNE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of loch ramor, gently seaward stealing
Last Line: Thomas d'arcy mcgee.
Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Boyne, Battle Of The (1690); Williamite Wars