E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Melissa Er-Raqabi, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's Notes: Two variations, Sewee and Seewee, are used in this book, and have been left as in the original. Where poems cross a page boundary in the original, they have been left as one stanza except where the structure clearly indicates otherwise. I have been unable to confirm with another source if stanza breaks should occur in those places or not. See the html version of this file (16064-h.htm or 16064-h.zip) to see where page breaks occur. (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/0/6/16064/16064-h/16064-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/0/6/16064/16064-h.zip) CAROLINA CHANSONS Legends of the Low Country by DuBOSE HEYWARD AND HERVEY ALLEN The MacMillan Company New York Boston Chicago Dallas Atlanta San Francisco MacMillan & Co., Limited London Bombay Calcutta Melbourne The MacMillan Co. of Canada, Ltd. Toronto 1922 TO JOHN BENNETT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The thanks of the authors are due to the editors of _The London Mercury_, _The North American Review_, _Poetry, A Magazine of Verse_, _The Reviewer_, _The Book News Monthly_, and _Contemporary Verse_ for permission to reprint many of the poems in this volume. Grateful acknowledgment is also made to many friends for first-hand information and for the loan of letters, diaries, pictures, and old newspaper clippings. PREFACE In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.