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Subject: HALIFAX, CANADA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GUARD OF THE EASTERN GATE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Halifax sits on her hills by the sea
Last Line: And her thunder but sleeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Halifax, Canada; Weapons; Ammunition


HALIFAX, by CONSTANCE FAIRBANKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Facing the ocean, guardian of our land
Subject(s): Halifax, Canada


HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, by DERMOT BOLGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Smooth as death %the packed ice shone
Last Line: Or a frontier post for hell) %framing the solitary red word %hotel
Subject(s): Halifax, Canada


OLD WHARVES, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, by ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half a century ago
Subject(s): Halifax, Canada


THE FLAG OF OLD ENGLAND, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail to the day when the britons came over
Last Line: Chorus—hail to the day, &c.
Subject(s): Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); Flags - Great Britain; Halifax, Canada; Nova Scotia


THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen
Last Line: To seek the happy isles!
Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si