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Hervey Allen
found at the back of the volume.
If the only result of this book is to call attention to the literary and
artistic values inherent in the South, and to the essentially unique and
yet nationally interesting qualities of the Carolina Low Country, its
landscapes and legends, the labor bestowed here will have secured its
harvest.
DuBOSE HEYWARD--HERVEY ALLEN.
Charleston, S.C.
December, 1921.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Preface 9
Poems
Séance at Sunrise
17
Silences
20
Presences
23
The Pirates
25
The Sewees of Sewee Bay
34
La Fayette Lands
38

Legend of Theodosia Burr
The Priest and the Pirate 42
Palmetto Town
50
Carolina Spring Song
52
The First Submarine
The Last Crew 54
Landbound
65
Two Pages from the Book of the Sea Islands
66
1. SHADOWS
66
2. SUNSHINE
69
Negro Poems
Modern Philosopher
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