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Title: Carolina Chansons
Legends of the Low Country

Author: DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen

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Language: English

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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