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Excerpt from Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne
Then came the disasters of the civil war. Mr. Hayne, whose health, delicate from his childhood, would not allow him to take field service, became an aid on Governor Pickens's staff. During the bom bardment of his native city, his beautiful home was burned to the ground, and his large, handsome library utterly lost. Even the few valuables, such as the old family silver, which he succeeded in securing and removing to a bank in Columbia for safe-keeping, were swept away in the famous march to the sea and there was nothing left for the homeless and ruined man but exile among the Pineo Barrens of Georgia. There he established himself, in utter seclusion, In a veritable cottage (or rather shanty, dignified at first as Hayne's behind whose screens of vines, among the peaches, melons, and straw berries of his own raising, he has fought the fight of life with uncom plaining bravery, and persisted in being happy.
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