Carl Werner an Imaginative Story Author:William Gilmore Simms Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOCASSEE. A story of the old-time Cherokee, Of a true-lore, that, like an angel's breath, Hath a sweet fragrance, still surviving death, And a bloom ... more »Time can touch not—won from high; A flow'r—for such is true love — of the sky. JOCASSEE. " Keowee Old Fort," as the people in that quarter style it, is a fine antique ruin and relic of the revolution, in the district of Pendleton, South Carolina. The region of country in which we find it, of itself, is highly picturesque and interesting. The broad river of Keowee, which runs through it, though comparatively small, as a stream, in America, would put to shame, by its, size, not less than its beauty, one half of the far- famed and boasted rivers of Europe ; — and then the mountains, through and among which it winds its way, embody more of beautiful situation and romantic prospect, than art can well figure to the eye, or language convey to the imagination. To understand, you must see it. Words are of little vOL. II. 12 avail when the ideas overcrowd utterance; and even vanity itself is content to be dumb in the awe inspired by a thousand prospects, like Niagara, the ideal of a god, and altogether beyond the standards common to humanity. It is not long since I wandered through this in- teresting region, under the guidance of my friend, Col. G , who does the honors of society, in that quarter, with a degree of ease and unostentatious simplicity, which readily makes the visiter at home. My friend was one of those citizens to whom one's own country is always of paramount interest, and whose mind and memor)', accordingly, have been always most happily emplo3'ed when storing away and digesting into pleasing narrative those thousand little traditions of the genius loci, which give life to rocks and valleys, an...« less