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HELEN HALSEY:
OR,
THE SWAMP STATE OF CONELACHITA.

A TALE OF THE BORDERS.

BY W. GILMORE SIMMS,

AUTHOR OF “RICHARD HURDIS,” “THE YEMASSEE,” “THE KINSMEN,” &C. “Even so it was with me when I was young; If we are Nature's, these are ours: this thorn Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong; Our blood to us, this to our blood is born; It is the show and seal of Nature's truth, Where Love's strong passion is imprest in youth: By our remembrances of days foregone, Such were our faults,—O! then we thought them none.” Shakspeare.
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