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Subject: THERMOMETERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` THE SEXTON AND THE THERMOMETER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A building there is, well known, I conjecture
Last Line: "so, if you take the joke, why, I'll take the dollar!"
Subject(s): Churches; Janitors; Jokes; Thermometers; Cathedrals


THERMOMETER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine to watch the sun at work
Last Line: At the mean point of 54
Subject(s): Thermometers