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Subject: PARACHUTES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` PARACHUTE JUMPER, by ETHEL CASE COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Patrick, our garden man, knows all the fairy-folk
Last Line: ...Can I believe that we've both of us dreamed?
Subject(s): Fairies; Parachutes; Elves


PARACHUTE MEN, by LENRIE PETERS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Parachute men say / the first jump
Last Line: We are always at the starting point
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Parachutes; British Empire; England - Empire


PARACHUTIST, by JON ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then the air was perfect. And his descent
Last Line: Who imagine the silence of a guest %to be mysterious, or wrong
Subject(s): Parachutes


TO MY FRIEND WHOSE PARACHUTE DID NOT OPEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrown backward first, head over heels in the wind
Subject(s): Parachutes