Don QuixoteGaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of El Dorado.

But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o’er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like El Dorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
“Shadow,” said he,
“Where can it be-
This land of El Dorado?”

“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,”
The shade replied-
“If you seek for El Dorado!”

Edgar A. Poe

Funny – Poe spent some time in SC out on Sullivans Island. And in true SC style, married his 13 year old cousin, wracked up gambling debts, became addicted to morphine and died in someone else’s cloths under questionable circumstances, penniless and in a ditch. How about a big “Atta-boy!” for ole E.A.?