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See + http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=kyetexts;cc=kyetexts;xc=1&idno=B92-277-32008329&view=toc + + + + + +THE LEGEND OF THE BLEEDING-HEART + +by + +ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON + +Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "Big +Brother," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," +"Keeping Tryst," etc. + + + + + + + +[Illustration: Olga, holding it in the hollow of +her hands, offered him the water.] + + + + +Boston +L. C. Page & Company +1907 +Copyright, 1900 +By L. C. Page & Company +(Incorporated) +Copyright, 1907 +By L. C. Page & Company +(Incorporated) +All rights reserved +First Impression, July, 1907 +Colonial Press +Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. +Boston, U. S. A. + + + + +IN MEMORY +OF THE ONES THAT GREW +SO LONG AGO, +IN OLD "Aunt Nancy's" GARDEN. + + + + +The Legend of the Bleeding-heart + + + + +In days of old, when all things in the Wood had speech, there lived +within its depths a lone Flax-spinner. She was a bent old creature, and +ill to look upon, but all the tongues of all the forest leaves were ever +kept a-wagging with the story of her kindly deeds. And even to this day +they sometimes whisper low among themselves (because they fain would +hold in mind so sweet a tale) the story of her kindness to the little +orphan, Olga. + +'Twas no slight task the old Flax-spinner took upon herself, the day she +brought the helpless child to share the shelter of her thatch. The Oak +outside her door held up his arms in solemn protest. + +"Thou dost but waste thyself," he said. "Thy benefits will be forgot, +thy labours unrequited. For Youth is ever but another title for +Ingratitude." + +"Nay, friend," the old Flax-spinner said. "My little Olga will not be +ungrateful and forgetful." + +All hedged about with loving care, the orphan grew to gracious +maidenhood, and felt no lack of father, mother, brother or sister. In +every way the old Flax-spinner took their places. But many were the +sacrifices that she made to keep her fed and warmly clad, and every time +she went without herself that Olga might receive a greater share, +Wiseacre Oak looked down and frowned and shook his head. + +Then would the old dame hasten to her inner room, and there she pricked +herself with her spindle, until a great red drop of her heart's blood +fell into her trembling hand. With witchery of words she blew upon it, +and rolled it in her palm, and muttering, turned and turned and turned +it. And as the spell was laid upon it, it shrivelled into a tiny round +ball like a seed, and she strung it on a thread where were many others +like it, saying, "By this she will remember. She will not be ungrateful +and forgetful." + +So years went by, and Olga grew in goodness and in beauty, and helped +the old Flax-spinner in her tasks as blithely and as willingly as if +she were indeed her daughter. Every morning she brought water from the +spring, gathered the wild fruits of the woods, and spread the linen on +the grass to bleach. At such times would the bent old foster-mother hold +herself erect, and call up to the Oak, "Dost see? Thou'rt wrong! Youth +is _not_ another title for Ingratitude." + +"Thou hast not lived as long as I," would be the only answer. + +One day as Olga was wandering by the spring, searching for watercresses, +the young Prince of the castle rode by on his prancing charger. A +snow-white plume waved in his hat, and a shining silver bugle hung from +his shoulder, for he had been following the chase. + +He was thirsty and tired, and asked for a drink, but there was no cup +with which to dip the water from the spring. But Olga caught the drops +as they bubbled out from the spring, holding them in the hollow of her +beautiful white hands, and reaching up to where he sat, offered him the +sparkling water. So gracefully was it done, that the Prince was charmed +by her modest manner as well as her lovely face, and baring his head +when he had slaked his thirst, he touched the white hands with his lips. + +Before he rode away he asked her name and where she lived. The next day +a courier in scarlet and gold stopped at the door of the cottage and +invited Olga to the castle. Princesses and royal ladies from all over +the realm were to be entertained there, seven days and seven nights. +Every night a grand ball was to be given, and Olga was summoned to each +of the balls. It was because of her pleasing manner and her great +beauty that she had been bidden. + +The old Flax-spinner courtesied low to the courier and promised that +Olga should be at the castle without fail. + +"But, good dame," cried Olga, when the courier had gone, "prithee tell +me why thou didst make such a promise, knowing full well this gown of +tow is all I own. Wouldst have me stand before the Prince in beggar's +garb? Better to bide at home for aye than be put to shame before such +guests." + +"Have done, my child!" the old dame said. "Thou shalt wear a court robe +of the finest. Years have I toiled to have it ready, but that is naught. +I loved thee as my own." + +Then once more the old Flax-spinner went into her inner room, and +pricked herself with her spindle till another great red drop of her +heart's blood fell into her trembling hand. With witchery of words she +blew upon it, and rolled it in her palm, and muttering, turned and +turned and turned it. And as the spell was laid upon it, it shrivelled +into a tiny round ball like a seed, and she strung it on to a thread, +where were many others like it. Seventy times seven was the number of +beads on this strange rosary. + +When the night of the first ball rolled around, Olga combed her long +golden hair and twined it with a wreath of snowy water-lilies, and then +she stood before the old dame in her dress of tow. To her wonderment +and grief she saw there was no silken robe in waiting, only a string of +beads to clasp around her white throat. Each bead in the necklace was +like a little shrivelled seed, and Olga's eyes filled with tears of +disappointment. + +"Obey me and all will be well," said the old woman. + +"When thou reachest the castle gate clasp one bead in thy fingers and +say: + + "'For love's sweet sake, in my hour of need, + Blossom and deck me, little seed.' + +Straightway right royally shalt thou be clad. But remember carefully the +charm. Only to the magic words, 'For love's sweet sake' will the +necklace give up its treasures. If thou shouldst forget, then thou must +be doomed always to wear thy gown of tow." + +So Olga sped on her moon-lighted way through the forest until she came +to the castle gate. There she paused, and grasping a bead of the strange +necklace between her fingers, repeated the old dame's charm: + + "For love's sweet sake, in my hour of need, + Blossom and deck me, little seed." + +Immediately the bead burst with a little puff as if a seed pod had +snapped asunder. A faint perfume surrounded her, rare and subtle as if +it had been blown across from some flower of Eden. Olga looked down and +found herself enveloped in a robe of such delicate texture, that it +seemed soft as a rose-leaf and as airy as pink clouds that sometimes +float across the sunset. The water-lilies in her hair had become a +coronal of opals. + +When she entered the great ball-room, the Prince of the castle started +up from his throne in amazement. Never before had he seen such a vision +of loveliness. "Surely," said he, "some rose of Paradise hath found a +soul and drifted earthward to blossom here." And all that night he had +eyes for none but her. + +The next night Olga started again to the castle in her dress of tow, and +at the gate she grasped the second bead in her fingers, repeating the +charm. This time the pale yellow of the daffodils seemed to have woven +itself into a cloth of gold for her adorning. It was like a shimmer of +moon-beams, and her hair held the diamond flashings of a hundred tiny +stars. + +That night the Prince paid her so many compliments and singled her out +so often to bestow his favours, that Olga's head was turned. She tossed +it proudly, and quite scorned the thought of the humble cottage which +had given her shelter so long. The next day when she had returned to +her gown of tow and was no longer a haughty court lady, but only Olga, +the Flax-spinner's maiden, she repined at her lot. Frowning, she carried +the water from the spring. Frowning, she gathered the cresses and +plucked the woodland fruit. And then she sat all day by the spring, +refusing to spread the linen on the grass to bleach. + +She was discontented with the old life of toil, and pouted crossly +because duties called her when she wanted to do nothing but sit idly +dreaming of the gay court scenes in which she had taken a bright brief +part. The old Flax-spinner's fingers trembled as she spun, when she saw +the frowns, for she had given of her heart's blood to buy happiness for +this maiden she loved, and well she knew there can be no happiness where +frowns abide. She felt that her years of sacrifice had been in vain, but +when the Oak wagged his head she called back waveringly, "My little Olga +will not be ungrateful and forgetful!" + +That night outside the castle gate, Olga paused. She had forgotten the +charm. The day's discontent had darkened her memory as storm-clouds +darken the sky. But she grasped her necklace imperiously. + +"Deck me at once!" she cried in a haughty tone. "Clothe me more +beautifully than mortal maid was ever clad before, so that I may find +favour in the Prince's sight and become the bride of the castle! I would +that I were done for ever with the spindle and the distaff!" + +But the moon went under a cloud and the wind began to moan around the +turrets. The black night hawks in the forest flapped their wings +warningly, and the black bats flitted low around her head. + +"Obey me at once!" she cried angrily, stamping her foot and jerking at +the necklace. But the string broke, and the beads went rolling away in +the darkness in every direction and were lost--all but one, which she +held clasped in her hand. + +Then Olga wept at the castle gate; wept outside in the night and the +darkness, in her peasant's garb of tow. But after awhile through her +sobbing, stole the answering sob of the night wind. + +"Hush-sh!" it seemed to say. "Sh-sh! Never a heart can come to harm, if +the lips but speak the old dame's charm." + +The voice of the night wind sounded so much like the voice of the old +Flax-spinner, that Olga was startled and looked around wonderingly. Then +suddenly she seemed to see the thatched cottage and the bent form of the +lonely old woman at the wheel. All the years in which the good dame had +befriended her seemed to rise up in a row, and out of each one called a +thousand kindnesses as with one voice: "How canst thou forget us, Olga? +We were done for love's sweet sake, and that alone!" + +Then was Olga sorry and ashamed that she had been so proud and +forgetful, and she wept again. The tears seemed to clear her vision, for +now she saw plainly that through no power of her own could she wrest +strange favours from fortune. Only the power of the old charm could make +them hers. She remembered it then, and holding fast the one bead in her +hand, she repeated humbly: + + "For love's sweet sake, in my hour of need, + Blossom and deck me, little seed." + +Lo, as the words left her lips, the moon shone out from behind the +clouds above the dark forest. There was a fragrance of lilies all +about, and a gossamer gown floated around her, whiter than the whiteness +of the fairest lily. It was fine like the finest lace the frost-elves +weave, and softer than the softest ermine of the snow. On her long +golden hair gleamed a coronet of pearls. + +So beautiful, so dazzling was she as she entered the castle door, that +the Prince came down to meet her, and kneeling, kissed her hand and +claimed her as his bride. Then came the bishop in his mitre, and led her +to the throne, and before them all the Flax-spinner's maiden was married +to the Prince, and made the Princess Olga. + +Then until the seven days and seven nights were done, the revels lasted +in the castle. And in the merriment the old Flax-spinner was again +forgotten. Her kindness of the past, her loneliness in the present had +no part in the thoughts of the Princess Olga. + +All night the old Oak, tapping on the thatch, called down, "Thou'rt +forgotten! Thou'rt forgotten!" + +But the beads that had rolled away in the darkness, buried themselves in +the earth, and took root, and sprang up, as the old woman knew they +would do. There at the castle gate they bloomed, a strange, strange +flower, for on every stem hung a row of little bleeding hearts. + +One day the Princess Olga, seeing them from her window, went down to +them in wonderment. + +"What do you here?" she cried, for in her forest life she'd learned all +speech of bird and beast and plant. + +"We bloom for love's sweet sake," they answered. "We have sprung from +the old Flax-spinner's gift--the necklace thou didst break and scatter. +From her heart's best blood she gave it, and her heart still bleeds to +think she is forgotten." + +Then they began to tell the story of the old dame's sacrifices, all the +seventy times seven that she had made for the sake of the maiden, and +Olga grieved as she listened, that she could have been so ungrateful. +Then she brought the Prince to hear the story of the strange, strange +flowers, and when he had heard, together they went to the lowly cottage +and fetched the old Flax-spinner to the castle, there to live out all +her days in ease and contentment. + +"See now," she whispered to the Oak at parting, but sturdily he held his +ground, persisting, "Thou _wouldst_ have been forgotten, save for that +miracle of bloom." + +_And still the flower we call BLEEDING-HEART blooms on by cottage walls +and castle gardens, to waken all the world to grateful memories. And +ever it doth bring to mind the lonely hearts that bleed because they are +forgotten, and all they sacrificed for love's sweet sake, to give us +happiness._ + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LEGEND OF THE BLEEDING-HEART*** + + +******* This file should be named 17825.txt or 17825.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/8/2/17825 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. 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