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Subject: ORAN, SAINT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 19. SAINT ORAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Saint oran told them while the west grew dim
Last Line: Of that wild fruit of flame whose taste is peace.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Oran, Saint; English History


GLENFINLAS; OR LORD RONALD'S CORONACH, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O hone a rie'! O hone a rie'! / the pride of albin's line is o'er
Last Line: We ne'er shall see lord ronald more!
Subject(s): Death; Fillan, Saint (d. 649); Glenfinlas (forest), Scotland; Hunting; Oran, Saint; Dead, The; Hunters


THE PROPHECY OF ST. ORAN, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm had ceased to rave: subsiding slow
Last Line: "that his blaspheming tongue may blab no more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Ireland; Missionaries & Missions; Oran, Saint; Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Irish