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Subject: TOLL ROADS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` THE TOLL-GATE MAN, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tore down the toll-gate
Last Line: From the next far hill.
Subject(s): Toll Roads


VERSE ON THE TOLL-GATE NEAR HARTLEBURY, WORCESTSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On wednesdat last old robert sleath, %passed through the turnpike gate of death
Last Line: To him death would no toll abate, %who stopped the king at worcester gate
Subject(s): Toll Roads


VERSES FROM ANTI-TURNPIKE RIOTS; PEMBROKESHIRE, 1843, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is rebecca? That daughter of my story!
Last Line: Bu all to no purpose - good-bye then, rebecca!
Subject(s): Social Protest; Toll Roads


VERSES TO THE TOLL-COLLECTOR, CARMARTHEN, WALES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By blood and fire christ strikes the blow
Last Line: Who admits none, except they pay %the piper
Subject(s): Social Protest; Toll Roads