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Subject: MENNONITES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLUEPRINTS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a long way off I can see the cross-
Last Line: Be the planner's. This one touched my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Amish; Farm Life; Memory; Mennonites; Agriculture; Farmers


MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts; Mennonites


THE AMISH, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The amish are a surly sect
Last Line: To gaze upon these simple folk
Subject(s): Amish; Mennonites