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Subject: PROSPECTING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` PROSPECTOR, by IDA MCDANIEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bristling desert cloaks its gold
Last Line: Where roses deck the desert's breast.
Subject(s): Prospecting


PROSPECTOR'S WIFE, by FAITH TURNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Eight times a mother. In between
Last Line: To have it come about that way.
Subject(s): Prospecting


SOURDOUGH STORY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark to a sourdough story, told at sixty below
Last Line: My search was crowned... That bird I found -- ain't got no belly button.
Subject(s): Prospecting


THE OLD PROSPECTOR, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a song in the canyon below me
Last Line: I'll follow the trail that I love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Prospecting; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE PROSPECTOR, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My pick is stuck in my belt-loop, my pipe is stuck in my face
Subject(s): Prospecting & Prospectors


THE PROSPECTOR, by IRENE WELCH GRISSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Scent of sage and a coyote's song
Last Line: The end of the last long trail.
Subject(s): Prospecting