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Subject: WAKE ISLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MEN OF WAKE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men betrayed, of that island a myth and a wonder
Last Line: Theirs the light beyond death—the eternal debt of the living.
Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War


WAKE ISLAND, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proof of america! A fire on the sea,
Subject(s): Wake Island; World War Ii; Second World War