HE SOUTH is a land that has known sorrows; it is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with its tears; a land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead; but a land of legend, a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic memories.

EDWARD WARD CARMACK.

SOUTHERN

LITERARY

READINGS

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WITH INTRODUCTION,
NOTES, BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, AND SOME
THOUGHT QUESTIONS

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LEONIDAS WARREN PAYNE, JR.

Adjunct Professor of English in the University

of Texas

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