Author: William Gilmore Simms

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 9781333344320

Excerpt from The Cassique of Kiawah: A Colonial Romance Away away! Once more his eyes shall hail the welcome day; Once more the happy shores without a law. - byron. Suppose the day to be a fine one - calm, placid, and without a cloud - even such a day as frequently comes to cheer us in the benign and bud-compelling month of April; - suppose the seas to be smooth at rest, and slumbering without emotion; with a fair bosom gently heaving, and sending up only happy murmurs, like an infant's after a late passion of tears; suppose the hour to be a little after the turn of noon, when, in April, the sun, only gently soliciting, forbears all ardency; sweetly smiles and softly embraces; and, though loving enough for comfort, is not so Op pressive in his. Attachments as to prompt the prayer for an iceberg upon which to couch ourselves for his future communion; sup posing all these supposes, dear reader, then the voyager, running close in for the land - whose fortune it is to traverse that portion of the Atlantic which breaks along the shores of Georgia and the Carolinas - beholds a scene of beauty in repose, such as will be very apt to make him forgetful of all the dangers he has passed' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.