81

_Poe_
Edgar Allan Poe 83
Alchemy 86

Osceola 88

_Ashley River Gardens_
Magnolia Gardens 89
Middleton Garden 92

_Cooper River Legends_
The Goose Creek Voice 95
The Leaping Poll 98

The Blockade Runner 101
Beyond Debate 111
Marsh Tackies 112
Back River 114
Dusk 117

_Prose Notes and Bibliography_
On the Chimes 121
On the Pirates 122
On the Sewee Indians 124
On La Fayette 125
On Theodosia Burr 126
On "The Last Crew" 127
On Edgar Allan Poe 128
On "Marsh Tackies" 130
Bibliography 131

CAROLINA CHANSONS

LEGENDS OF THE LOW COUNTRY

SEANCE AT SUNRISE

Place the new hands
In the old hands
Of the old generation,
And let us tilt tables
In the high room
Of our imagination.

Let the thick veil glow thin,
At sunrise--at sunrise--
Let the strange eyes peer in,
The red, the black, and the white faces
Of the still living dead
Of the three races.

Let a quaint voice begin:

_Voice of an Indian_
"Gone from the land,
We leave the music of our names,
As pleasant as the sound of waters;
Gone is the log-lodge and the skin tepee,
And moons ago the ghost-canoe brought home
The latest of our sons and daughters--
Yet still w