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