“Dim vales and shadowy floods
    And cloudy-looking woods
    Whose forms we can’t discover,
    From the tears that drip all over”

was written while Poe was in the army at Fort Moultrie, and appeared in his second volume in 1829.  There are later echoes.

    “Around by lifting winds forgot
    Resignedly beneath the sky
    The melancholy waters lie.”

H.A.

“MARSH TACKIES”

“Marsh Tackies” is the name given by the negroes to the little, wild horses of the Carolina coast country’s swamps and sea islands.  Early traditions say that these horses were found by the English when they first came and that they are the descendants of runaways from the Spanish settlements to the South about St. Augustine, or horses turned loose by DeSoto upon his ill-fated march to the Mississippi.  These horses pick up a precarious living in out-of-the-way sections along the coast, and are occasionally taken and broken in by the negroes.  They are the “poor horse trash” of the section.

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