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Subject: SUDAN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EL MAHDI TO THE TRIBES OF THE SOUDAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard the voice of the lord
Last Line: Shall rule in the earth alone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): God; Islam; Muhammad Ahmad (1844-1885); Religion; Sudan; War; Al-mahdi; Muhammad Ahmad Ibn As-sayyid 'abd Allah; Theology


FUZZY-WUZZY' (SOUDAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE), by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We've fought with many men acrost the seas
Last Line: You big black boundin' beggar -- for you broke a british square!
Subject(s): Sudan; War


GLADSTONE, 1885 (DURING THE SOUDANESE WAR), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A skilful leech, so long as we were whole
Last Line: Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sudan; British Empire; England - Empire


THE ENGLISH DEAD (IN THE SOUDANESE CAMPAIGN), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give honour to our heroes fall'n, how ill
Last Line: But with the poppy alone, their deeds and death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Sudan; Dead, The