Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
                                            
                            By LaSalle Corbell Pickett
                            
                                21 Feb, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The fires still glow upon the hearthstones to which our southern writers in the olden days gave us friendly welcome. They are as bright to-day as when, "four feet on the fender," we talked with some gifted friend whose pen, dipped in the heart's bloo
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                                                The fires still glow upon the hearthstones to which our southern writers in the olden days gave us friendly welcome. They are as bright to-day as when, "four feet on the fender," we talked with some gifted friend whose pen, dipped in the heart's blood of life, gave word to thoughts which had flamed within us and sought vainly to escape the walls of our being that they might go out to the world and fulfil their mission. They who built the shrines before which we offer our devotion have passed from the world of men, but the fires they kindled yet burn with fadeless light. Less