Kiraela
May 7th, 2009, 11:07 AM
My father in law was just going through some of his stuff and he found something really cool, which he gave to me. It's a bag full of dried spanish moss and a card with a poem on it:
"There's an old, old legend that's whispered by southern folks
About the lacy spanish moss that garlands the great oaks.
A Lovely princess and her love, upon their wedding day,
Were struck down by a savage foe amidst a bitter fray.
United in death they were buried, so the legends go,
'Neath an oak's strong, friendly arms, protected from their foe.
There, as was custom, they cut the bride's long hair with love,
And hung it's shining blackness on the spreading limbs above.
Untouched, Undisturbed it hung there for all the world to see,
And with the years the locks turned gray and spread from tree to tree."
- Legend of the Spanish Moss, by Dawson Corley.
http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/DANPOD/US11_AJE0001_M-FB%7ELive-Oak-Tree-Draped-with-Spanish-Moss-Savannah-Georgia-USA-Posters.jpg
(darn, that princess must have had a lot of hair. I wonder if it was Rapunzel? :D)
"There's an old, old legend that's whispered by southern folks
About the lacy spanish moss that garlands the great oaks.
A Lovely princess and her love, upon their wedding day,
Were struck down by a savage foe amidst a bitter fray.
United in death they were buried, so the legends go,
'Neath an oak's strong, friendly arms, protected from their foe.
There, as was custom, they cut the bride's long hair with love,
And hung it's shining blackness on the spreading limbs above.
Untouched, Undisturbed it hung there for all the world to see,
And with the years the locks turned gray and spread from tree to tree."
- Legend of the Spanish Moss, by Dawson Corley.
http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/DANPOD/US11_AJE0001_M-FB%7ELive-Oak-Tree-Draped-with-Spanish-Moss-Savannah-Georgia-USA-Posters.jpg
(darn, that princess must have had a lot of hair. I wonder if it was Rapunzel? :D)