Just a little bit of Heaven from a time just bare remembered,
My Carolina homeland twixt the mountains and the sea
Home of the Catawba, the Wando, and the Winya, the Sewee, and the Cooso, the Hook and Cherokee.
A paradise of wildlife, too numerous to mention, the Bob Cat and the gator, the home of Whitetail deer.
From the Blue Ridge in the Piedmont, to the vast Atlantic Ocean with the rolling greens, the stands of pine and swamplands caught between.
Just a little bit of Heaven from a time just bare remembered,
My Carolina homeland twixt the mountains and the sea
A place of history making from the early 1650s, through the War of Independence to shake the British yoke.
The War of Abolition for the rights of Southern freedom that left this ground the final resting place of men in Southern gray.
Not a place of grandiosity but genteel decorum, we still teach our kids the decency of conventionality.
Stand when a lady enters, don’t you dare fall into gaucheness, show respect if its respect you want and always say yes Ma’am and Sir.
Just a little bit of Heaven from a time just bare remembered,
My Carolina homeland twixt the mountains and the sea
My time on earth grows short now; I’ll soon be taken homeward, to a better place I have been told across the glassy sea.
To a place of peace and joy, of eternal sunshine, a place of satisfaction located in eternity.
And as my mind turns inward; in final preparation; one thought prevails my thinking as I ponder all these things.
Though I still have many questions, there is one thing I am sure of; about this place of rest that’s on the other side.
It will be a replication of the little bit of Heaven; that was my Carolina homeland twixt the mountains and the sea
May 02 2018 Dr. Benjamin B. Driggers
Dr. Driggers is originally from Williamsburg County SC
