Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-06
The Lady of The Lake
INTERESTING LIOENn 0f THE SOUTH PEtPEfI ATID Hl
 TOM MOORE.

Tae Lady of shc Lake "I b. .ts dismal ~aaMp ts going l9 saE. 1a.- rab.e 10 tGe Jumesto@u eAUo=a= ton, winch is but few miles away from the wonderful swamp and the Jake oyer which the lady presides.
 The soHfhcrn states, especially Ni.- ginfa. are rich in Indian Ic2chds. mes of which are HclfIo@ia2 @ith lhe poetry of sentiment.
 The wrath, Lady of the Lake et Dismal Swamp, while not SO old Ill song and story as the famous White doe of Roanoke island, is still of sui ticicnt antiquity 10 entitlc her to Il place among the first families of ghostly heroines. Every night at midnight on Lake Drummond, in the very heart of the Dismal swamp, she may been seen by those endowed With jmagination. paddling her white ca noe. guided by the light of her tirefly lamp. Her restless spirit has been thus engaged at dead of night for more than century and half Her lamp gloWed on the dark waters of the dread lake, when Tom Moore was in Norfolk, in 1894, so he promptly proceeded to immortaliZe her.
 The legend of the Lady of Lake Drummond is partly Indian, in that the Indians were responsible for the story that she is to be seen at mid night on the lake. The canoe, like wise, is an Indian canoe, and the fire fly lamp can be of none other than Indian origin. The lady, however is a palcface, but unlike the white doe of Roanoke island, which was ill., fated Virginia Dare, bewitched, the name and personality of the lady of the lake has never been known. Even her faithful lover. who lost his life seeking her in the dread morass, while his coHaJaney reFefbcrates through the corridors Of time. .is hiu- ~lf nameIess.
 Tradition ayers aided and abetted hN Tom Meere=tllat the wrath of her lover joined her and that they have oyer since crossed the Iale tosefIf HddHishi t1n. gszdeHea=ss @H taII= haek=on lie Indian hUH#=4. 8a a.e from =sAe Indian hunters
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 IL is obvious from the record l6at she fled to Dismal swamp because ahe did Bet aRPg~ee= er asE crave. For
 Tb5y made her grave too cold and
 damp
 For a soul 50 warm and true. She has gone to lake of jhe=pjS
 mal swamp
 Where all night long bY q trefly lamp
 She paddles her white canoe
 zNs between the grave and the swamp many people, having acquired all imaginative dread of the latter. might prefer the former. Dampness is a characteristic they hold in com mon.
 The restless spirit CT the lady Aas ins gone 10 Lake Drummond 10 aea iourn, her mortal lover followed hef there soon to hecome=tmmertal. F,x. actly how long after her deuIiae i was, is not known Tom Meoe2 i5 aat explicit on this poMt lte#-2Iz. 4#= rather aHetes:
 itN'N t1st4 Nfl et Nftt#tS1 lltt l N tli' &AAsft ais mind upon Inc death of q girl he loved. and who. suddenly disap- 3aHins from his friends, MS never aaeeWaHd heae4=at Ns ha aqHeat ly said in his mH4e gHuE Ha was noe d13d, a1 hal eaer Dismal s8ana ts sUnaa Ha-Had UaHaea7! Mao rG Wiadertrsz h5l ated eH Hlase# or becn Hasc in so1ae at fs det.ti.aH HaeaSse4.
 N0ore.s ballad tells u.aae o5 5ae lover than of tho lady The leau4 man had a most terrible time of t fa the fens where the serpent feeds and where the she wolf stirred tho Haln and
 The cophersnake breatAed ilt l,s ear. Tic ballad gees on 10 tell how he Il !