Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Oliatta and Other Poems
IN the summer of 1851, I was passing my college vacation at the pleasant village of A - n. One evening, in a party of young ladies, a strangely wild and striking melody was sung by one of them. Upon procuring the words, I found them to be in keeping with the music. This ballad seems to be founded upon some legend of the Dismal Swamp, else it would certainly be one of the most incomprehensible of modern ballads, which is surely saying a great deal.
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