Who said “false as dreams”? Not one who saw
Into the wild and wondrous world they sway;
No thinker who hath read their mystic law;
No Poet who hath weaved them in his lay.
Henry Timrod
Henry Timrod dies, 1867
Nathaniel Bacon dies, 1676
October Seventh
And the fever called “Living”
Is conquered at last.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe dies, 1849
Battle of King’s Mountain, N. C., 1780
October Eighth
EDGAR ALLAN POE