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diff --git a/old/65048-0.txt b/old/65048-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 892fcce..0000000 --- a/old/65048-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3728 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of "Lexington", by Sidney Howard - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: "Lexington" - A Pageant-Drama of the American Freedom - -Author: Sidney Howard - -Release Date: April 10, 2021 [eBook #65048] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The Internet - Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "LEXINGTON" *** - -[Illustration: LEXINGTON - -BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY] - - - - - SECOND PRESENTATION - _of the_ - HISTORICAL PAGEANT DRAMA - “_Lexington_” - COMMEMORATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY - _of the_ - BATTLE OF LEXINGTON - - ENACTED EVERY TEN YEARS - _by the_ - CITIZENS OF LEXINGTON - MASSACHUSETTS - - _AMPHITHEATRE_ - EVERY EVENING, WEEK OF JUNE 15TH - 1925 - - - - - Copyright, 1924 - The Lexington Historical Society - All rights reserved - - - Printed in U. S. A. - - - - - _The production staged - and under the personal - direction of_ - - SAMUEL J. HUME - - - - -_Special Nights_ - - - JUNE 15--PRESIDENT’S NIGHT - In Honor of the President of the United States. - - JUNE 16--GOVERNORS’ NIGHT - In Honor of the Governors of the Thirteen Original States. - - JUNE 17--BUNKER HILL NIGHT - In Memory of the Patriots who fought at Bunker Hill. - - JUNE 18--COLLEGE NIGHT - In Honor of the visiting Alumni of the New England Colleges. - - JUNE 19--HISTORICAL NIGHT - In Honor of the Historical Societies of America. - - JUNE 20--MILITARY NIGHT - In Memory of the sons of Lexington who have fallen in the - service of their country. - - - - -1775 “_Pageant of Lexington_” 1925 INC. - - - EDWARD C. STONE, _President_ - WALDO F. GLIDDEN, _Vice-President_ - EDWARD W. KIMBALL, _Vice-President_ - EDWIN B. WORTHEN, _Treasurer_ - DANIEL B. LEWIS, _Auditor_ - - FLETCHER W. TAFT - _Director of Publicity_ - - WILLARD D. BROWN - _Chairman of Construction_ - - SHELDON A. ROBINSON - _Chairman, Grounds Committee_ - - DAVID HENNESSY - _Superintendent Amphitheatre_ - - - - -“_Lexington_” - -_Citizens’ Committee of One Hundred_ - - EDWIN B. WORTHEN, _Chairman_ - HARRY M. ALDRICH - WILLIAM H. BALLARD - S. LEWIS BARBOUR - DR. WILLIAM L. BARNES - EDWIN A. BAYLEY - HALLIE C. BLAKE - ARTHUR L. BLODGETT - GEORGE E. BRIGGS - FRED K. BROWN - LEROY S. BROWN - WILLARD D. BROWN - ALBERT H. BURNHAM - JOHN CALDER - LYON CARTER - WILLIAM E. CHAMBERLAIN - CALVIN W. CHILDS - EDMUND S. CHILDS - ROBERT P. CLAPP - JOSEPH H. CODY - THEODORE A. CUSTANCE - FRANCIS S. DANE - CHARLES B. DAVIS - FREDERICK L. EMERY - RICHARD ENGSTROM - ROBERT J. FAWCETT - HARRY F. FAY - ROBERT W. FERNALD - EDWIN F. FOBES - FREDERICK R. GALLOUPE - GEORGE H. GIBSON - GEORGE L. GILMORE - WALDO F. GLIDDEN - C. EDWARD GLYNN - WM. ROGER GREELEY - CHARLES ELLIOTT HADLEY - GEORGE D. HARRINGTON - ALTON H. HATHAWAY - J. WILLARD HAYDEN, JR. - DAVID HENNESSY - WILLARD C. HILL - CHARLES E. HOLT - ROBERT H. HOLT - RANDALL B. HOUGHTON - WILLIAM HUNT - J. CHESTER HUTCHINSON - EDWARD W. KIMBALL - HAROLD B. LAMONT - DANIEL B. LEWIS - HARRY W. LITCHFIELD - ARTHUR N. MADDISON - EDWARD H. MARA - HUGH D. MCLELLAN - EDWARD P. MERRIAM - CHARLES H. MILES - FRED W. MILLER - FRED H. MOULTON - JOHN E. A. MULLIKEN - HERMANN DUDLEY MURPHY - GEORGE W. NORTON - CHARLES P. NUNN - TIMOTHY H. O’CONNOR - ALFRED PIERCE - FRANK D. PIERCE - DR. FRED S. PIPER - ELWYN G. PRESTON - WILLIAM W. REED - WALTER W. ROWSE - ROBERT L. RYDER - EDWARD H. SARGENT - EDWARD D. SAWYER - O. GILBERT SEELEY - JULIUS SELTZER - CLARENCE SHANNON - FRANK R. SHEPARD - WILLIAM H. SHURTLEFF - FRANKLIN P. SIMONDS - CLARENCE E. SPRAGUE - LESTER E. SMITH - JAMES STUART SMITH - JAMES W. SMITH - WILLIAM L. SMITH - EDWIN C. STEVENS - EDWARD C. STONE - ALBERT B. TENNEY - ROCKWELL C. TENNEY - DR. J. ODIN TILTON - JOHN F. TURNER - DR. WINSOR M. TYLER - DR. HENRY C. VALENTINE - HENRY L. WADSWORTH - JAMES J. WALSH - HOLLIS WEBSTER - HERBERT L. WELLINGTON - HARRY A. WHEELER - HARVEY C. WHEELER - HARVEY F. WINLOCK - EDWARD WOOD - FREDERICK O. WOODRUFF - SYDNEY R. WRIGHTINGTON - - -_Executive Committee_ - - ROBERT P. CLAPP, _Chairman_ - J. WILLARD HAYDEN, JR., _Executive Director_ - - HALLIE C. BLAKE - GEORGE E. BRIGGS - EDWARD P. MERRIAM - CHARLES W. RYDER - SYDNEY R. WRIGHTINGTON - -[Illustration] - - -_Finance Committee_ - - EDWARD P. MERRIAM, _Chairman_ - - LYON CARTER - RICHARD ENGSTROM - GEORGE L. GILMORE - ALTON H. HATHAWAY - J. CHESTER HUTCHINSON - H. B. LAMONT - ARTHUR N. MADDISON - FRED H. MOULTON - ELWYN G. PRESTON - F. R. SHEPARD - JAMES STUART SMITH - -[Illustration] - - -_Advisory Committee_ - - HALLIE C. BLAKE, _Chairman_ - - THEODORE A. CUSTANCE - FREDERICK L. EMERY - W. ROGER GREELEY - WILLARD C. HILL - ROBERT H. HOLT - CHARLES H. MILES - EDWARD H. SARGENT - WILLIAM L. SMITH - EDWIN C. STEVENS - HARRY A. WHEELER - -[Illustration] - - -_Committee on Book_ - - JAMES P. MUNROE, _Chairman_ - - MISS MAUD E. ADLINGTON - MISS MARIAN P. KIRKLAND - DR. FRED S. PIPER - HOLLIS WEBSTER - - -_Committee on Production_ - - WALDO F. GLIDDEN, _Chairman_ - - AMERICAN LEGION--STANLEY HILL POST NO. 38 - Eugene J. Viano Charles M. Blake - - AMERICAN LEGION--AUXILIARY NO. 38 - Mrs. Clayton G. Locke Miss Lillian Viano - - BOARD OF TRADE - C. E. Hadley W. E. Mulliken - - BUCKMAN TAVERN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION - Mrs. S. Randolph Kelley Mrs. E. W. Kimball - - CATHOLIC CLUB (Ladies’) - Mrs. Nancy M. Sealey Miss Julia O’Leary - - CATHOLIC CLUB (Men’s) - Geo. H. Gibson John J. Garrity - - CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA - Mrs. Helen R. Fitzgerald Mrs. Mary F. Buckley - - DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION--LEXINGTON CHAPTER - Miss Amy E. Taylor Mrs. Edward L. Child Mrs. Alice Fay Stickel - - EAST LEXINGTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION - Edgar Harrod Albert Ross - - FIRST PARISH MEN’S CLUB (Unitarian) - Louis L. Crone Ralph H. Elvedt - - FOLLEN CHURCH MEN’S CLUB--EAST LEXINGTON - Jos. W. Cotton James M. Nickerson - - GIRL SCOUTS DRUM CORPS - Miss Hazel Whiting Mrs. Dorothy G. Hall - - GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC--GEO. G. MEADE POST NO. 119 - John N. Morse Everett S. Locke - - HANCOCK CHURCH MEN’S CLUB - Henry L. Wadsworth William H. Shurtleff - - HANCOCK SCHOOL - Miss Harriet S. French Miss Margaret Noyes - - KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS--LEXINGTON COUNCIL NO. 94 - James J. McKearney John J. McCormack - - LAFAYETTE CLUB - Miss Mary Manley Miss Anne Moakley - - LEND-A-HAND (Senior) - Mrs. A. B. Tenney Mrs. Clarence E. Sprague - - LEXINGTON BOY SCOUTS - Philip E. Perry Peter Robertson - - LEXINGTON COUNCIL OF GIRL SCOUTS - Mrs. Everett S. Emery Mrs. J. Chester Hutchinson - - LEXINGTON DRUM CORPS - Chester Doe Dana Greeley - - LEXINGTON GOLF CLUB - Edmund S. Childs Robert Whitney - - LEXINGTON GRANGE NO. 233 - Lawrence G. Mitchell Matthew Stevenson - - LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Mrs. William Hunt Mrs. Hermann Dudley Murphy - - LEXINGTON HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION - Mrs. Walter C. Ballard Miss Grace P. French - - LEXINGTON MINUTE MEN - Ezra F. Breed Bion C. Merry - - LEXINGTON PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION - Miss Ellen Tower S. Lewis Barbour - - LEXINGTON TEACHERS’ CLUB - Miss Anne L. Forsyth Miss Bertha V. Hayward - - LIBERTY HEIGHTS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION - G. W. Nary James Guthrie - - LIEUT. COL. JOHN W. HUDSON AUXILIARY NO. 11 - Mrs. E. Esther Burnham Miss Ethel L. Burk - - MEN’S CLUB--CHURCH OF OUR REDEEMER - J. Fox Capt. Wm. Young - - OLD BELFRY CLUB - Jasper A. Lane Mrs. Harold B. Lamont - - ORDER OF EASTERN STAR - Mrs. Guyetta G. Broderic Mrs. Helen H. Smith - - OUTLOOK CLUB - Miss Marguerite Nichols Miss Clara Wadleigh - - PARKER SCHOOL - Miss Sadie I. Burgess Miss Ruth Morrison - - SCHOOL DEPARTMENT--LEXINGTON - Miss Mary C. Lusk Miss Anne L. Forsyth - - SIMON W. ROBINSON LODGE, A. F. & A. M. - George E. Smith Robert M. Stone - - SONS OF VETERANS--LIEUT. COL. JOHN W. HUDSON CAMP NO. 105 - Geo. E. Foster Alfred Haynes - - UNITY LEND-A-HAND - Mrs. Lyon Carter Mrs. Robert W. Fernald - - UNITARIAN LAYMEN’S LEAGUE - Arthur B. Howe Robert S. Sturtevant - - WOMEN’S RELIEF CORPS NO. 97 - Mrs. Edward L. Child Mrs. Robert W. Britton - - - - -“_Lexington_” - -A PAGEANT DRAMA _of the_ AMERICAN FREEDOM - - _Founded upon Great Sayings - To be Acted in Dumb Show_ - - COMPILED AND, IN PART, WRITTEN BY - SIDNEY HOWARD - - _For the Celebration of the - One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary - of the Battle of Lexington - April 19th, 1775_ - - [Illustration] - - _Stage Manager_ - WALDO F. GLIDDEN - - _Musical Director_ - CHARLES REPPER - - _Director of Chorus_ - CLARENCE E. BRIGGS - - - - -_To My Wife_ - - - “_The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but - it can never forget what they did here_--” - - A. LINCOLN - - - - -_Foreword_ - - -The aim of this play is to represent the impulse and the progress of -civil liberty in this country since the commencement of the War for -Independence. The intention is never literal. In spite of a certain -actuality in the presentation of the incidents of “The Glorious -Morning” at Lexington, the play must always be considered and produced -as an abstraction of the events with which it is concerned. - -The events themselves are marked by the great sayings of our prophets -of liberty and of sundry other minds of genius, all quite arbitrarily -selected. Great sayings, through their immense significance to the -popular imagination, become symbols of the periods which occasioned -them. Great activities may, in the same sense, be looked upon as -abstractions of the periods and movements which required them and made -them possible. - -The great activities of the story of American civil liberty are here -treated in a kind of processional dumb show which amplifies the -quotations placed in the mouths of the two Spokesmen, the Choir of -speakers and the characters in the play. When the dumb show is not -executed in procession, it devolves upon groups which act collectively -as a single individual and, on certain occasions, speak in unison. - -Comment upon the action is supplied by a few lines which have been -written for the roles of the Chronicler and Freedom and for the Chorus -of singers. - -The play demands an almost continual musical accompaniment. This -should be composed upon the foundation of period songs, particularly -those which are indicated in the text. Also, the various speeches of -the Spokesmen will be enhanced if the composer musically emphasizes -their rhythms with some sort of accompaniment. In the opinion of the -author, the score will be most effectively scored for brass and wind -instruments. The chorus must be a male chorus. The play will suffer, -always, for the introduction of any woman’s voice except as indicated -in the text. - -The action is continuous; its changes of locale and atmosphere being -indicated only by shifting emphases in the lighting. - -The acting presents no difficulty beyond that of securing actors -with good voices who have troubled to learn how to speak the English -language. - - - - -_Characters in the Play_ - - - THE CHRONICLER. - THE TWO SPOKESMEN. - FREEDOM. - - PARSON CLARK OF LEXINGTON. - CAPTAIN JOHN PARKER OF THE LEXINGTON COMPANY. - SERGEANT MUNROE OF THE LEXINGTON COMPANY. - WILLIAM DIAMOND OF THE LEXINGTON COMPANY (drummer). - JONATHAN HARRINGTON OF THE LEXINGTON COMPANY (fifer). - MAJOR PITCAIRN. - TWO BRITISH LIEUTENANTS. - JOHN MUNROE OF THE LEXINGTON COMPANY. - EBENEZER MUNROE OF THE LEXINGTON COMPANY. - - GEORGE WASHINGTON. - EDMUND PENDLETON. - PATRICK HENRY. - THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. - - GENERAL HOWE. - MAJOR ANDRE. - - ALEXANDER HAMILTON. - - JOHN BROWN. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN. - GENERAL GRANT. - GENERAL LEE. - - - - -_Groups in the Play_ - - - THE CITIZENS OF LEXINGTON. (Men, women and children.) - THE LEXINGTON COMPANY. (Men.) - TWO REGIMENTS OF BRITISH INFANTRY. (Men.) - THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. (Men.) - THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. (Men, women and children.) - THE CITIZENS OF PHILADELPHIA. (Men and women.) - THE PIONEERS. (Men, women and children.) - THE SLAVES. (Men.) - THE EXECUTIONERS OF JOHN BROWN. (Men.) - THE ARMY OF THE UNION. (Men.) - THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERACY. (Men.) - THE RAILROAD BUILDERS. (Men.) - THE STEEL WORKERS. (Men.) - THE COAL MINERS. (Men.) - THE FARMERS. (Men.) - THE BUILDERS. (Men.) - THE FACTORY HANDS. (Women and children.) - THE MEEK MEN. (Men.) - WEALTH. (Men.) - LABOR. (Men.) - GOVERNMENT. (Men.) - UNREST. (Men.) - THE PAST. (Men.) - - A CHOIR OF SPEAKERS. - A CHORUS OF SINGERS. - BUGLERS AND DRUMMERS. - - - - -“_Lexington_” - - -_Think of the place in which the play is to be produced, just as it has -been adapted from the natural forest. Think of the curving sleeve of -water which lies along the lowermost edge of the scene, of the rising -slopes and levels which surmount one another so spaciously, of the -trees which close in back and sides._ - -_Then, into the face of the slope immediately above the water’s -edge and directly in the center, set a simple low throne and put a -conventional lectern before it. Flank this with two lower seats, even -more simple. Build this whole group as gracefully and as lightly as the -best taste of the best Georgian period dictates and paint it the purest -white._ - -_This done, go to the extreme limits of the front of the scene and, -just at the edge of the trees, erect two pedestals. These, in height, -must a little more than top a man’s stature. In style and decoration -they are as chaste as the central group. Probably they are finished -with an exquisite cornice and adorned with garlands in low relief, just -brushed with gold. Upon each one of them set a solid, simple throne, -quite like the one you have already put in the center._ - -_The Chronicler sits on the central throne. He is already in his -place when the doors of the auditorium are opened to admit the first -spectator. So are the two Drummers who occupy the low seats on either -side of him. So are the two Spokesmen who sit atop the two pedestals._ - -_For the Chronicler’s role an actor of fine Anglo-Saxon type must -be engaged, one able to speak English with beautiful and natural -precision. The same is true of the roles of the two Spokesmen._ - -_The Chronicler wears buff breeches, a white shirt and a blue coat -which hangs nobly from his shoulders and spreads over the arms of his -seat. His hair, of a natural brown, is pulled back from his brow and -tied with a black velvet ribbon. The lectern before him supports a -great book. At the commencement of the play he opens this book and, at -the end, he closes it. From time to time, during the action, he writes -in it, using a large and snowy-white quill pen._ - -_The Drummers who sit on either side of him are dressed in scarlet and -as alike as two peas, in costume, make up and cut of hair. Neither one -of them has ever any occasion to speak. Each one of them must devote -his attention wholly to playing upon a great kettledrum which will be -provided for this purpose. The two drums are tuned a diminished third -apart._ - -_The two Spokesmen will wear the scarlet robes and white wigs of -British justices. They never move during the entire play._ - -_All of these five persons, it must be repeated, will be in their -places when the auditorium opens. None of them can be allowed to move -until the auditorium has emptied. They must think of themselves as -parts of the fixed scene._ - -_Behind them, the slope flattens slightly and this area will, -hereinafter, be described as the “Forestage.” Behind that, again, -comes a second, slighter rise and that is succeeded by a much more -considerable level place. This second level will hereinafter be spoken -of as the “Stage.”_ - -_The stage is set to represent the Common of Lexington in the year -1775. The road from Cambridge and Boston enters at the back center and -divides, passing the Meeting House on either side. The Meeting House is -erected, full size, just at the back of the stage and directly in the -center, thus masking this road. A little down on the right (in these -stage directions right and left refer to the hands of the audience) -stands the Old Belfry. Further over to the right, half buried in the -trees, are the old horse sheds. Further down stage on the right stands -the Marrett-Munroe House, also half buried in foliage, and the Concord -Road leaves the Common as far down stage on the right as the planting -permits. On the left, just a little below the position occupied on the -right by the horse sheds, stands the Buckman Tavern. Then, all the way -down stage left stands the Parsonage of the Rev. Jonas Clark. This -should be set a little apart from the Common to suggest its remoteness. -A road leads past this in the direction of Bedford._ - -_These entrances will hereinafter be referred to as the Boston, Concord -and Bedford Roads respectively. Other village paths may be supposed to -lead on to the Common at any convenient points._ - -_When the first member of the audience enters, it is twilight. He finds -the life of the village going on with full realism of detail except -that it is in no wise audible. He is looking at a soundless vision of -the eighteenth day of April, one hundred and fifty years ago. Villagers -are chatting about the doorway of the Buckman Tavern. They come in -and go out. They wear long coats and smoke long pipes and drink long -drinks. Some of them discuss a newspaper excitedly. What they are -saying cannot be heard, for they play entirely in dumb show. A century -and a half is too great a time to be bridged easily by sound._ - -_Silent as the rest a boy guards a flock of a few sheep in the center -of the Common. Young girls, going about pleasure or business and quite -free from any preoccupation with the serious matters which engross the -tavern’s patrons, stop to chat with him._ - -_Presently a young farmer drives his cows in from pasture. Presently -other farmers return from the fields, carrying the crude agricultural -implements of their day. Presently another farmer drives his emptied -truck wagon home from market._ - -_Presently a traveler on a jaded mare comes up the Boston Road and -halts by the Buckman Tavern. The citizens gather about him greedily. -Greedy, it would seem, for news. And he gives them news before he has -finished his ale and ridden on down the Bedford Road._ - -_As the play’s commencement draws near, an old man comes out of the -Meeting House. The children, playing about the Belfry, run into him -and he admonishes them. Then he rings the bell. At first one cannot be -quite sure of the bell. Then the spell becomes stronger and it does -clang dimly through._ - - - - -_Part One_ - -[Illustration] - -“_The Glorious Morning_” - - - [_The Chronicler opens his book and begins to write._ - - _In the far distance, a bugler blows “Assembly.”_ - - _For the first time, the Chronicler lifts his head and looks at the - audience._ - - _Just a little nearer than the bugle some horns play “Yankee Doodle.”_ - - _In the darkling tavern faint voices of men take up the chorus._ - - _A very little light shines upon the Chronicler’s figure. He rises - and lifts his right hand._ - - _The Drummers play a long roll._ - - _Then the Chronicler speaks._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -(_Directly into the audience._) - -In the Book of American Freedom it has been written that the Town -of Lexington, in the County of Middlesex, in the Commonwealth of -Massachusetts, shall be designated as “The Birthplace of American -Liberty.” This, says the book, is a fitting designation because the -events which had their scene in Lexington on the glorious morning of -the nineteenth of April one hundred and fifty years ago this year did -forever mark and set aside the town to be a symbol of liberty to all -free nations and all free peoples. - - [_The Drummers play another roll on their drums and the Chronicler - sits._ - - _Off stage, to a noble tune which gradually increases in volume, the - Chorus sings two verses from Drayton’s “To the Virginian Voyage.”_] - -THE CHORUS - - You brave, heroic minds, - Worthy your country’s name, - That honor still pursue; - Go and subdue! - Whilst loitering hinds - Lurk here at home with shame. - - And in regions far, - Such heroes bring ye forth - As those from whom we came; - And plant our name - Under that star - Not known unto our north. - - [_As the singing diminishes, the light grows upon the thrones of - the two Spokesmen and they begin. They speak eagerly, almost in a - monotone, following no rhythm but the inevitable throb of Carlyle’s - prose. The bell, too, follows this throb, sounding ever louder and - more insistently through their words._] - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -The world is all so changed; so much that seemed vigorous has sunk -decrepit, so much that was not is beginning to be! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -(_Swinging antiphonally into tone and tempo._) - -Borne over the Atlantic what sounds are these; muffled-ominous, new in -our centuries? - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -Boston Harbor is black with unexpected Tea! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Behold a Pennsylvanian Congress gather! - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -And ere long, on Bunker Hill.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -DEMOCRACY.... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -Announcing in rifle-volleys, death winged.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Under her Star Banner.... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -To the tune of Yankee-Doodle-Doo.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -That she is _born_.... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -And whirlwind-like.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Will envelope the whole world! - - [_The drums roll out. The lights die down on the Spokesmen. In the - meanwhile, answering the summons of the bell ringer, the people of - Lexington have come out of street and tavern in the twilight and - gathered about the Meeting House steps._ - - _Jonas Clark has gone to them to stand upon the steps facing them. He - is now in his forty-fifth year, a vigorous, lean, eager man with a - spirit of gripping and convincing sincerity._ - - _At the conclusion of the words of the Spokesmen, all of the - villagers are gathered together about their pastor, save one girl. - She is distinguished from her sisters of the village, less by her - dress (which is commonplace enough) than by a strange and wild - loveliness and by a deep absorption in her own thoughts. She is tall - and very beautiful and a prophetic intensity possesses her._ - - _Led by their pastor, the people about the Meeting House lift their - voices in the fifty-ninth Psalm._] - -PARSON CLARK - -Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: set me on high from those that -rise up against me. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save -me from the blood-thirsty men. - -THE PEOPLE - -For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; the mighty gather themselves -together against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord; -they run and prepare themselves without my fault. - -PARSON CLARK - -For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even -be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak. - -THE PEOPLE - -Yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning, for thou hast been -my high tower, and a refuge in the day of my distress. - -PARSON CLARK - -Unto thee, O my Strength, will I sing praises, for God is my high -tower, the God of my mercy. - - [_Then the people fall silent and do not move. But the great words - that they have spoken together have very deeply stirred this single - girl who has stood apart and listened. With the last word of the - Psalm, she seems of a sudden to grow taller. A smile like light - itself spreads over her face. Light seems to grow out of her. She - lifts her two arms in a wild abandonment to exaltation and cries - out._] - -THE GIRL - -Ah! - - [_The Chronicler looks up in amazement at this sudden shout._ - - _The girl takes a few tense steps down toward him and the light about - her grows ever in whiteness._] - -THE GIRL - - Write more, write more, you Chronicler! - Write how the roots - Stir in the ground! - Write how the sap - Stirs in the trees! - Write how the thaw - Gives breath of life! - And write how God - Peers through the firmament - Upon the continents; for this day is glory! - -THE CHRONICLER - -Who are you, Girl? - -THE GIRL - -Men call me different names. God calls me Freedom! - - [_Upon this, a gigantic roll of the drums. The girl, Freedom, turns - her back slowly upon the audience as Parson Clark begins to address - his congregation. She goes up, tensely and superbly, face to face - with him._] - -PARSON CLARK - -It has come now to our turn, Americans, to see what we can do. The -indignant spirit of self-government which inspired our ancestors is -now pronounced by the Lords and Commons of England to be a spirit of -rebellion. The colonies hesitate not a moment, but unite and greatly -dare to be free. God who sitteth upon the throne of his holiness, the -governor among nations, will know our cause and uphold our right to -freedom. Let us pray. - - [_The people kneel. Only the girl, Freedom, stands upright. The - Parson prays, the people repeating his prayer with him in unison. She - walks rigidly up the slope to the edge of the crowd to the Parson’s - side. At the end of the prayer she is standing beside him. This is - the prayer_:] - -OMNES - -O Lord, when dangers surround us and oppressors threaten our rights -and enemies invade our homes, we, thy people, look to thee, O Lord, -for our refuge and, committing our cause to thy wisdom and justice, we -do humbly expect, O Lord, that light will arise in darkness, that the -power of the oppressor may be broken, that our enemies will not prevail -against us, that our God will maintain our right. Amen. - - [_As Freedom entered the crowd, the light about her seemed to invest - it with a very wonderful splendor. During the prayer, however, and at - the end, only Freedom and the Parson are visible. Then the light goes - entirely, the hymn dies out and the crowd disperses in the darkness._ - - _Then the light glows upon the two Spokesmen and they begin to speak - again. This time dim music accompanies their words ... spoken once to - the House of Commons by Edmund Burke._] - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -A government against which a claim of freedom is tantamount to high -treason is a government to which submission is equivalent to slavery. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -The people of the colonies are the descendants of Englishmen and -therefore love liberty according to English ideas and on English -principles. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -Men may be as sorely touched and as deeply grieved in their privileges -as in their purses; men may lose little in property by the act which -takes away all their freedom. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -To prove that Americans ought not to be free we are obliged to -depreciate the value of freedom itself. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -“An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another -Englishman into slavery.” - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -“A great empire and little minds go ill together.” - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -“We stand where we have an immense view of what is and what is past.” - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -“Clouds, indeed, and darkness rest upon the future.” - - [_The music ends in another roll of drums. The Chronicler rises._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -The alarm is toward. The night of watching commences. - - [_He sits again. The Belfry tolls midnight. Through the darkness - a voice is heard calling the roll of the Lexington Company. It is - Sergeant William Munroe._] - -MUNROE - -(_Each man answering “Here!” as his name is pronounced._) Isaac -Blodgett ... Ebenezer Bowman ... Francis Bowman ... John Bridge ... -Joseph Bridge ... James Brown ... John Brown ... Solomon Brown ... John -Buckman ... Eli Burdoo ... - - [_The light of very early morning shows the Company drawn up - diagonally across the scene in attitudes of attention. Captain John - Parker stands in thought a little apart. Parson Clark looks down upon - the people from the Meeting House. The men and women of the town - hover on the outskirts of the scene._ - - _The kettledrums drown the Sergeant’s voice. Music bursts forth, a - crashing theme which can be divided by the demands of the subsequent - dialogue and by rolling of the kettledrums._ - - _The greatest possible amount of light blazes upon the Meeting House - door. Thence, like a comet, Freedom comes. She is robed now in a - cloak of flame and a scarlet cap of liberty crowns her. Perhaps the - drums continue, perhaps the theme of triumph modulates softly beneath - her shouted words._] - -FREEDOM - -Huzza! - -THE MINUTE MEN - -(_Statues, all._) - -Huzza! - -FREEDOM - -Answer, Mankind! - -A VAST SHOUT OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF THE HILLS - -Huzza! - -FREEDOM - - Soldiers of Liberty, - Make your arms strong! - Make your hearts stout! - Make your souls great! - -THE MINUTE MEN - -(_As before._) - -Huzza! - -THE SHOUT FROM THE HILLS - -(_As before._) - -Huzza! - -FREEDOM - - Soldiers of Liberty, - I am your dream, - I am your cause, - I am your destiny! - -THE MINUTE MEN - -(_As before._) - -Huzza! - -THE SHOUT FROM THE HILLS - -(_As before._) - -Huzza! - -FREEDOM - - Breathe with my breath! - Strike with my sword! - Bleed with my blood! - Be life! - Be love! - Be sacrifice! - Be death! - -THE MINUTE MEN - -(_As before._) - -Huzza! - -THE SHOUT FROM THE HILLS - -(_As before._) - -Huzza! - -FREEDOM - - I bid you stand! - I bid you strike! - I bid you die! - Take me! - Believe me! - Obey me! - Adore me! - I am come to lead you, - Soldiers of Liberty! - I am come to lead you forever. - - [_A tremendous huzza and the music blares forth and there is darkness - again save for the lights in the houses, and upon the Chronicler. The - music subsides to hesitant themes and into a lyric eloquence of dawn - and cool breezes and the early light which presently steals across - the tree tops. The Chronicler rises._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -You will see now, in one incalculable and everlasting instant, the -nativity of a nation. The night of watching passes and the day dawns -that is glory. - - [_He sits. The light spreads over the scene and shows the people and - the Company. Freedom has vanished._ - - _Captain Parker arouses himself at once._] - -PARKER - -Those of you who are equipped, stand fast. Those of you who lack -equipment, go into the Meeting House and supply yourselves. Then come -back to your places. - - [_There is some business of inspecting equipments. Each man looks - into his powder horn and some of them try the triggers of their - muskets._ - - _The light increases a little. The music becomes more excited._] - -PARKER - -William Diamond, let me hear your drum. Jonathan Harrington, where is -your fife? - - [_Drum and fife break loose._] - -A MINUTE MAN - -This is folly and we so few! - -PARKER - -Folly or sense, I will shoot the first man who runs. - -MUNROE - -Fall in! - - [_The Company comes to attention in absolute silence. The line - extends almost across the stage. The backs of the Minute Men cut the - scene diagonally. Parker stands down stage at the lower or right - end of the line. Parker and the Parson are always visible to the - audience. A silence is broken only by drum taps; and by the footfalls - (off stage) of marching men._ - - _Clark lifts his hands to heaven a moment in silent prayer._] - -PARKER - -(_To the Minute Men in a voice of thunder._) - -Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless you’re fired upon. But if they -mean to have a war, let it begin here! - - [_The rising sun blazes upon the British redcoats as they appear on - both sides of the Meeting House. First the scarlet figure of Major - Pitcairn, riding his horse, then the British column, four abreast, - with the lieutenant of each platoon marching in his place._ - - _Pitcairn sees the unwavering line of Minute Men and pulls his horse - up sharp._] - -PITCAIRN - -Halt! - - [_The Britishers halt, the order being repeated down the column. - For an instant there is no motion of any kind. No sound except an - occasional throb of a kettledrum, defying rhythm now as the shots - will do in a moment._ - - _Pitcairn comes a few steps forward. He looks at the colonists. He - laughs bitterly._] - -PITCAIRN - -Throw down your arms, you damned rebels! - - [_No one moves._] - -D’ye hear me? - - [_Slowly Parker turns and looks upon his little, feeble line of men. - Then he looks again at the Britishers. Then we see him realize the - futility of his attempt._ - - _Very reluctantly the line of Minute Men sways and loosens. It does - not quite break. Its manœuver is rather that of retiring. Then a few - draw angrily back and a few more stand defiantly. Jonas Parker throws - his hat at his feet._] - -JONAS PARKER - -Here I stand, so help me God! - - [_An angry murmur of resentment rises from the Minute Men. Parker is - spellbound. Pitcairn turns to his first platoon lieutenant._] - -PITCAIRN - -Surround and disarm these rebels. - - [_The lieutenant gives the proper commands to bring the first British - platoon down stage and into line. The second, under command of its - own lieutenant, follows and the British Company stands, so, drawn up - in company front facing the retreating Minute Men._] - -THE FIRST LIEUTENANT - -Damn ’em, Major, we’ll get at ’em.... - - [_He gives the order by which the first platoon should deploy as - skirmishers for the business of disarming the colonists. The platoon - breaks with another cheer, but before its men have taken two steps, - one of the Minute Men, a figure lost in the shadow and the crowd, has - fired his musket at Major Pitcairn._ - - _The British stop in amazement._ - - _Immediately John and Ebenezer Munroe lift their muskets._] - -JOHN MUNROE - -I’ll give ’em the guts of my gun! - - [_They fire almost together, wounding the Major’s horse._ - - _Seeing the Major’s horse plunge, the first lieutenant cries_:] - -THE FIRST LIEUTENANT - -The Major’s hit.... Fire, damn you, fire! - - [_The first platoon fires--too high, it would seem, for no Minute Men - fall. But the Minute Men fire back, Lieutenant Tidd, Ebenezer Locke, - Nathan Munroe, Jonas Parker and Benjamin Sampson._ - - _Parker stands frozen._ - - _Pitcairn tries to control his horse._] - -THE SECOND LIEUTENANT - -Fire, by God, fire! - - [_The second platoon fires._ - - _Then everything happens at once. The music crashes out a theme which - terminates in a high tremolo. Pitcairn is seen to signal cease firing - with his sword. The Minute Men break, all but Jonathan Parker who has - been wounded by the volley of the second platoon and sinks to his - knees trying to reload his gun. Jonathan Harrington, wounded, runs - down stage left where his wife is cowering in the corner and there - dies in her arms. Two of the Minute Men overpower Parker and drag him - off. Robert Munroe, wounded, falls and dies beside the horse sheds. - Solomon Brown, firing from the Buckman Tavern, is silenced by a - volley fired toward the tavern and continues shooting from the trees. - The three escape fighting from the Meeting House. The British clear - the Common, bayonetting Jonas Parker as they go._ - - _Then it is over._] - -PITCAIRN - -We shall have further to go than Concord before this morning’s work is -finished. Fall in! - - [_The music strikes into a dissonant march as the Britishers fall in._ - - _Pitcairn rides up the Concord Road. The lieutenants lead the - platoon after him. The march comes to its end as the last Britisher - disappears. The scene is left to a dying away of the march in the - minor resolution and to Parson Clark and the seven dead._ - - _Parson Clark comes two or three paces forward._] - -CLARK - -“Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mispeh and Shen, where -the battle was fought, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying: -‘Hitherto hath the Lord helped us!’” - - [_In frightened little groups, the people come back and gather about - their dead._] - -Lexington has been allotted by providence to meet the first blow, to -offer the first sacrifice. Thus far hath the Lord helped us. - - [_Parker comes forward quickly, but Clark stops him, lifting his - hands to the heavens and crying out_:] - -“Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory!” - - [_Parker bows his head._] - -As to what is still before us, we do not anxiously inquire nor proudly -prophesy. Our cause is just. - -PARKER - -They must come back from Concord. - -CLARK - -That is true. Carry the dead into God’s house. Blessed be the name of -the Lord! - - [_He has shouted this last. The people begin to pick up the dead and - to carry them toward the Meeting House whither Parker and Clark walk - together. The music strikes into a march, as solemn and grand as any - march can be and the Chorus sings_:] - -THE CHORUS - - O Lord, who wert our free-born fathers’ Guide, - Judge us for our unalterable intent; - Govern us, God, with Thy still government, - Telling our fathers how their sons have died. - - [_Before the singing is done, all of the people have vanished within - the Meeting House. When the stage is emptied, the Chronicler rises._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -The instant is delivered into time. - - [_He sits and Minute Men come up the Bedford Road. They are armed. - They cross the stage in groups of three to twelve and go out by the - Concord Road. The music quickens once more. The light is the most - brilliant of full afternoon._ - - _People come out of the houses and the paths and peer excitedly up - the Concord Road. Scattered shots begin to be audible from that - direction. The knots of people point in triumphant excitement up - the road. Suddenly they withdraw, scattering in excited confusion. - Shouts and shots sound nearer and closer together. Then the British, - routed and retreating from Concord, surge through the Common and out - behind the Meeting House and there are shots, too, from there. The - huzzas of the colonists all but drown the shouts and musketry. About - the Meeting House a cloud rises that may be dust but is presently - seen to be steam. The stage darkens. Only the wild music and the - shoutings continue and, in the midst of the steam curtain, Freedom, - more gorgeous than ever, shouts louder than the rest, her arms madly - lifted to heaven. The steam is many colored, then it dies to the - single figure. Then it is darkness and the music falls with it. Then - the steam is gone and the Meeting House with it and the Buckman - Tavern and all other evidences of Lexington Common are gone and in - their place is a new scene altogether._] - - - - -_Part Two_ - -[Illustration] - -“_Political Freedom_” - - - [_It is a long garden stair which we are shown, a stair suggested - by some of the planting we have already seen but which begins its - Georgian graciousness just where the Meeting House stood a moment - since. It rises in shallow steps broken by broad levels, three of - them, if possible, and on each of the levels, a bench, very simple - and dignified. These levels will hereinafter be referred to as the - first, second and third landings. The third is a long terrace, - lined, in its central portion, by a chaste and lovely balustrade - which extends to a planting of delicately trimmed shrubbery. The - whole scene has the look of some exquisite New England garden of the - eighteenth century._ - - _The musical accompaniment of this revelation is serenity itself. - Freedom stands on the lowermost step of the stair. She wears more - than ever gorgeous raiment. She stands there as though she paused - in her ascent to look back into the audience. On either side of the - stair, the Choir of speakers is banked, thirty-two in all, dressed - pictorially, yet not so brightly as to distract the eye from the - action of the play._] - -FREEDOM - - Revolt is the way of Freedom, - And the progress of Freedom is Change. - -(_Then a wild cry._) - - Bloodily! Bloodily! - Revolt! Revolt! Revolt! - -(_Then more calmly._) - - Look that you curb us not, - My men and I; - For present liberties enslave tomorrow, - And present triumphs shackle future years. - We see no limit set upon our purpose - Short of the Godhead ... so, restrain us not. - Be it here sworn: - These dead of Lexington - Have not vainly died, - These living - Have not vainly dreamed. - - [_She goes on up the stair._] - -THE CHOIR - -(_Almost a whisper._) - -These dead.... - -THE CHORUS - -(_Off stage, an echo of the burial song._) - -God, tell our fathers how their sons have died! - -THE CHRONICLER - -The story of the American Freedom is begun. - - [_The singing subsides and Freedom turns again, lifting her right - arm in a supreme gesture of command. Thereupon light blazes over the - first Spokesman and the clarion words of Patrick Henry break from his - lips._] - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -Appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts! There is no peace! Our brethren -are already in the field! - - [_Another gesture from Freedom and the second Spokesman is - illuminated to shout, as his antiphonal response, the words of Tom - Paine._] - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Oh, ye that love mankind, stand forth! Oh, ye that dare oppose the -tyranny and the tyrant, stand forth! - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of -chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. England hath given her -warning to depart. Oh, receive the fugitive and prepare, in time, an -asylum for mankind! - - [_Freedom’s two arms go wildly up._] - -A GREAT SHOUT FROM THE HILLS - -Give me liberty or give me death! - -FREEDOM - - Who shall be master of this high event, - And take revolt beneath his government? - -THE CHOIR - -Washington! Washington! Washington! - -FREEDOM - - An hour, a destiny, - And the need of man - For leadership, these three - God answers perfectly; - And, in the tumult and the darkness, lo, - A hero comes - So solemnly, - And the shoutings die and the drums - Are still and the van - Of battle takes its leader so, - And the race, its guardian, - And none has been more greatly strong than he - In resolution and humility. - -THE CHOIR - -(_Almost in a whisper._) - -Washington! - - [_Three men have ridden into the scene. They are Patrick Henry, - Edmund Pendleton and George Washington. There to meet them come - the President of the Continental Congress and Members of Congress. - Washington dismounts and advances until the President and he stand - face to face._] - -THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS - -(_Very solemnly._) - -We, reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor, -conduct and fidelity, do, by these presents, constitute and appoint -you to be general and commander-in-chief of the army of the United -Colonies and of all the forces now raised or to be raised by them for -the defense of American Liberty. - - [_He presents the sword of office to Washington who stands looking - very seriously at it._] - -WASHINGTON - -I beg it may be remembered that I this day declare with utmost -sincerity I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. -But, as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this -service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some -good purpose. - - [_He accepts the sword. A great sigh comes like a hope from all - around._ - - _A roll of snare drums far away and the groupings shift so that - Washington and Freedom stand alone together and the others draw - aside. Drum rhythms succeed one another until they resolve into two - themes. The one, played by the kettledrums, follows the syncopation - of the Spokesmen’s words. The other, played by the snare drums, - marks the time of a march. To this accompaniment, the Continental - Army comes upon the scene. First, the farmers who have left their - ploughs to join Warren for Bunker Hill. Then the tatterdemalion army - of which Washington took command for the siege of Boston. Then the - mob takes on form and appearance and order such as it must have had - to accomplish Burgoyne’s defeat, and the retreat through Jersey. - At the same time the Choir has begun to intone the Declaration of - Independence. The two Spokesmen listen and take up their shouted - responses. And the intoning runs rhythmically, following the accents - of the kettledrums which, in their turn, follow the accents of - Jefferson’s prose._] - -FOUR VOICES FROM THE CHOIR - -When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one -people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with -another.... - -EIGHT VOICES FROM THE CHOIR - -(_Upon a higher note._) - -And to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal -station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them.... - -FOUR VOICES FROM THE CHOIR - -(_Upon the same note as before._) - -They should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -We hold these truths to be self-evident.... - -FREEDOM - -All men are created free and equal.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.... - -FREEDOM WITH FOUR VOICES - -Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -To secure these rights governments are instituted among men.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.... - -FOUR VOICES FROM THE CHOIR - -Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends.... - -EIGHT VOICES FROM THE CHOIR - -(_Upon a higher note._) - -It is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.... - -TWELVE VOICES FROM THE CHOIR - -(_Upon a still higher note._) - -And to institute new government to provide new guards for their future -security. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND FOUR VOICES - -We, therefore.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND FOUR VOICES - -The representatives of the United States of America.... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND FOUR VOICES - -(_Upon a higher note._) - -In general congress assembled.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND FOUR VOICES - -(_Upon the same note._) - -Appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our -intentions.... - -FREEDOM AND FOUR VOICES - -Do, in the name and authority of the good people of these colonies.... - -(_Four more Voices._) - -Solemnly publish and declare.... - -(_Full Choir crescendo._) - -That these United States are and of right ought to be free and -independent states.... - - [_The army is assembled and cheers its chief with three mighty huzzas - which are part of a triumphant burst of melody. Washington stands - immobile and Freedom, likewise, above and behind him. The music dies - into mourning. The light dies except upon Washington and the central - and most ragged group which, in varied attitudes of weariness, sinks - to the ground about him. The light is dismal._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -(_Rising and speaking to the audience._) - -The soul of an event is the vision which God sets before its hero; its -life hangs upon the faith men bring to it. The heroes of God’s choosing -make Him manifest to man; but the faith of man is a wretched thing. Now -this event fares mournfully, for the army of revolt is more cruelly -driven by the doubts and jealousies of man than by the winds and snows -of winter, and the meaning of Freedom is forgotten in the fact of -hardship. Within himself and his great enterprise the chieftain stands -steadfast, concerned only with the omen and the pity of the time. - - [_Men’s voices sing again, weakly. The song is the hymn of - Washington’s soldiers which they sang about the campfires of Valley - Forge. The soldiers move about, warming their bodies wretchedly at - imaginary campfires._] - -CHORUS - - Lessons of war from him we take - And manly weapons learn to wield; - Strong bows of steel with ease we break, - Forced by our stronger arms to yield. - ’Tis God that still supports our right, - His just revenge our foes pursues; - ’Tis He, that, with resistless might, - Fierce nations to His power subdues. - - [_Washington, as the chorus dies, moves at last and begins to speak, - and his men crouch about his feet as in the dim light of campfires._] - -WASHINGTON - -What is to become of the army this winter? We are barefoot and naked. -Soldiers are not made of sticks and stones to occupy a cold, bleak hill -and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets. Unless some -great and capital change takes place, this army must inevitably starve, -dissolve or disperse. From my soul I pity these miseries which it is -not in my power to relieve or prevent. - - [_The light fades except upon Washington and Freedom._] - -FREEDOM - - I have cried out your name to the broad heavens, - I have given your courage to the stars to shout. - Be of good cheer, my leader, - The strong and the young have heard and will give answer, - The day is not yet lost. - - [_Washington looks hopefully into her beautiful, pitiful face as she - bends over him. The light leaves them and the Chronicler rises._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -How differently fare the enemies of Freedom! In Philadelphia where the -British are, is a time of plenty and of high festival. - - [_There is music, suddenly and very bright and as the light floods - the scene, two British soldiers have run in with regimental colors - which conceal Freedom and Washington and the stair from our view. - Then a gay crowd troops on to the stage and a double column of - grenadiers in scarlet coats. The soldiers quickly form the three - sides of a rectangle and General Howe and Major Andre ride into their - midst. Ladies are there, richly clad and elaborately coiffured. - Musicians are there with huge bass viols and sundry eccentric - instruments of the period. When all the crowd are assembled, General - Howe and Major Andre ride down to the water’s edge to welcome two - barges. In one of them is the English Queen of Beauty and, in the - other, the American Queen of Beauty. Each of the queens is attended - by a bevy of damsels in Turkish costumes. General Howe leads the - English Queen to her throne. Major Andre performs the same function - for the American Queen. The damsels follow them and the barges are - pulled away out of sight._ - - _Immediately the two queens have been enthroned, twelve knights ride - into the scene, dressed in eighteenth century adaptations of the - habiliments of chivalry. They divide into two parties, the Knights of - the Blended Rose and the Knights of the Burning Mountain. Each party - salutes its queen and the mock tournament is played out, terminating - in an exchange of pistol fire without casualties. Then the horses - are led off and the knights and the ladies all join in a brilliant, - stately dance which ends in a picture centering in the two queens, - each one of whom has removed a slipper from which her particular - knight is drinking wine._ - - _Then the rout is scattered by the sound of cannon and all the gay - folk run screaming and darkness gathers except for a single ray of - light which strikes across the stage. Into this a horseman gallops - frantically._] - -THE HORSEMAN - -(_Shouting._) - -Yorktown! Yorktown is taken! - - [_At the same time, Freedom and Washington and his army have been - revealed. Cannon boom and flash over their joyous faces and the army - breaks into frenzied cheering. The Chronicler leaps to his feet._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -Yorktown! The first goal is won! - - [_Light spreads once more over the scene and, to the old English - tune of “The World is Upside Down,” Cornwallis’ army marches out of - Yorktown and surrenders. Freedom dominates the whole scene in her - exultation. “The World is Upside Down” becomes a triumphal march - and all the multitude of the people prance into the scene. Then - dissonance creeps into the music and discord into the movement of the - crowd. The Chronicler rises._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -Chaos succeeds revolt and triumph gives way to greed and hatred and -what was harmony in war becomes jealousy and faction, for the faith of -the people is dead and the united colonies break asunder, each one for -itself. - - [_Loyalists are singled out, perhaps, and stoned and jostled from - the scene. Cheers become snarls. The multitude separates into small - units, thirteen of them. These seem to wrangle among themselves, - then, like so many socks, to turn inside out so that each menaces the - other. The light over the multitude is murky. The music subsides to a - low, ominous sound._ - - _All this time Washington has stood imperturbably upon the stair, - looking grimly down with the eloquence and understanding of a great - fatalism. Freedom, however, is amazed. She wrings her hands in - despair. She cries out in anguish._] - -FREEDOM - - Sowing salvation, do I reap - Havoc for harvest? - -THE CHRONICLER - -Upon the human tempest descends, once more, the calm of leadership. A -marvelous boy emerges. The word is Hamilton’s. - -FREEDOM - -Ah! - - [_She watches anxiously as Hamilton steps out of the gloom and - comes up into the light about herself and Washington. Hope revives - in her. She reaches her arms out toward him. Light shines upon the - Spokesmen._] - -HAMILTON - -The business of America’s happiness is yet to be done. - -(_The crowd snarls more loudly than ever._) - -There is something noble and magnificent in the perspective of a great -Federal Republic.... There is something proportionally diminutive and -contemptible in the prospect of petty states with the appearance only -of union. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -(_To Freedom, speaking Hamilton’s words._) - -Happy America, if those to whom thou hast entrusted the guardianship of -thy infancy know how to provide for thy future repose! - - [_From the people, a mocking laugh._] - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -(_Also speaking Hamilton’s words._) - -Miserable and undone if their negligence or ignorance permits the -spirit of discord to erect her banner on the ruins of your tranquillity! - - [_Again the laughter of the people._ - - _Washington looks toward Hamilton who comes up nearer his chief. - Freedom blesses him. The crowd shake their fists at him and turn away - their faces. The laughter develops into a horrible jeer. Then Freedom - speaks and the groups gather more closely together. But from each one - of them, during her words, certain individuals detach themselves and - move hesitantly until they stand about Hamilton’s feet._] - -FREEDOM - - Will you hear me, People? - I understand you, People, as none other can, - I serve you, People, as none other can; - I tell you, here is your proving time. - I bid you cast envy out from your hearts. - For none will work you injustice, now, save only yourselves, - And no folly will lead you astray now, but your own folly, - Therefore, bestir you, People! - You may not deny your leaders or your cause or me! - You cannot, People, for we are your life! - -HAMILTON - -(_To Freedom._) - -Tell them this Convention shall never rise until the Constitution is -adopted! - -FREEDOM - - Marvelous Boy, - Do you speak, now. - -HAMILTON - -(_Swinging to the people._) - -Here, my countrymen, let us make a firm stand for our safety, our -tranquillity, our dignity, our reputation. It belongs to us to -vindicate the honor of the human race. Union will enable us to do -it.... The necessity of a constitution is imminent. A nation without a -national government is an awful spectacle. Why, then, do you hesitate? -The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of -the consent of the people. The stream of national power ought to -flow immediately from that pure original fountain of all legitimate -authority. Let the thirteen states, bound together in an indissoluble -union, concur in erecting one great American system, consecrated to -the steady administration of the laws, dedicated to the protection of -liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, -of anarchy, able to dictate the terms of connection between the old -world and the new! - - [_Gradually as he spoke, the groups have merged, slowly and - diffidently, but surely. At the end they stand all together about his - feet, looking up into his face. And the music crashes superbly out - and light blazes upon the Spokesmen. And, as they begin to speak, the - crowd joins hands and lifts linked arms high, as if to take an oath._] - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND FOUR VOICES - -We, the people of the United States.... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND EIGHT VOICES - -In order to form a more perfect union... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND TWELVE VOICES - -Establish justice... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND SIXTEEN VOICES - -Ensure domestic tranquillity... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND TWENTY VOICES - -Provide for the common defense... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND TWENTY-FOUR VOICES - -Promote the general welfare... - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND TWENTY-EIGHT VOICES - -And secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity... - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND FULL CHOIR - -Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of -America. - - [_The triumphant music again and a shout of joy from all the people - and Freedom lifts grateful hands to heaven._] - -FOUR VOICES OF THE CHOIR - -(_Intoning upon a high note._) - -No law respecting an established religion or prohibiting the free -exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; -or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the -government for a redress of grievance. - -THE FULL CHOIR - -(_Sotto voce upon a higher note._) - -Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable! - -FREEDOM - -We here highly resolve that government of the people, by the people, -for the people shall not perish from the earth. - - [_Then the music bursts forth again and the first president is - inaugurated. The scene is best described in the words of Lear’s - diary. “All the churches in the city were opened and prayers offered - up to the Great Ruler of the Universe for the preservation of the - President. The troops of the city paraded.... The procession moved - forward, the troops marching in front with all the ensigns of - military parade. Next came the committees and heads of departments - in their carriages, the foreign ministers and a long train of - citizens.... About two hundred yards before we reached the hall - we descended from our carriages and passed through the troops who - were drawn up on either side, into the hall and the Senate Chamber - where we found the Vice-President and the House of Representatives - assembled. They received the President in a most respectful manner - and the Vice-President conducted him to a balcony. The oath was - administered in public by Chancellor Livingstone who proclaimed him - President of the United States.”_] - -WASHINGTON - -My station is new. I walk on untrodden ground. With God’s help, I -readily engage with you in the task of making a nation happy. - -THE PEOPLE - -God save our Washington! Long live our beloved President! - - [_The celebration of Washington’s inauguration is then enacted with - a torchlight procession, lanterns and transparencies and the frantic - joy of the crowd and much singing of “Yankee Doodle.”_ - - _The scene darkens with the dying of the jubilation._ - - _The Chronicler rises._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -The eight years of administration pass. The faith of the people again -grows cold. New voices speak flattery and falsehood and sow the seed of -disaster to come. But the leaders are steadfast, always, and, even in -farewell, the end of their leadership is wisdom. - - [_The only light, now, shines upon the group of Freedom, Washington - and Hamilton. The people stand, in the shadow, absolutely still and - unresponsive._] - -WASHINGTON - -The time has come for me to return to retirement. Choice and prudence -invite me to quit the scene. But a solicitude for your welfare which -cannot end but with my life prompts me to offer to your solemn -contemplation some sentiments which appear to me all important to the -permanency of your felicity as a people. - -FREEDOM - -This is the warning word. - -WASHINGTON - -The power and right to establish government presuppose the duty to obey -government. Providence connects the permanent felicity of a nation with -its virtue. Avoid the necessity of overgrown military establishments! -Be warned against the baneful effects of the spirit of party! Promote -institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. Observe good -faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with -all. It is folly for one nation to look for disinterested favors from -another. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances -with any portion of the foreign world. - -THE CHRONICLER - -The counsel is spoken. The farewell remains. - -WASHINGTON - -I shall carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to -view my errors with indulgence and that, after forty-five years of -my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of -incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion as myself must soon -be to the mansions of rest. - - [_There is an instant of silence. Then Freedom puts her hands on the - shoulders of Washington and Hamilton and looks into their eyes and - the distant Chorus sings._] - -THE CHORUS - - And in regions far - Such heroes bring ye forth - As those from whom we came - And plant our name - Under that star - Not known unto our north. - -FREEDOM - -(_Speaking above the Chorus._) - - Ever and ever more, - Under the western stars, - Over the western lands, - My leaders, - Your names, - Your words, - Your dreams! - - [_She turns with the two men and goes a few steps with them into the - darkness above them. Then they go up and she is last seen looking - after them. Darkness takes the entire scene._] - -THE CHORUS - - And in regions far, - Such heroes bring ye forth, - As those from whom we came.... - - - - -_Part Three_ - -[Illustration] - -“_Social Freedom_” - - -THE CHRONICLER - -The nation being established conceives the empire. The race, born of -the romance of empire and nourished upon the adventure of freedom, -turns to the wilderness. - -THE CHOIR - -Pioneers! O Pioneers! - -THE CHRONICLER - -Beyond these eastern mountains, the adventure of freedom is resumed, -and the romance of empire lives anew! - -THE CHOIR - -Pioneers! O Pioneers! - - [_Freedom turns at the shout and the music begins a soft, wild - march theme. Suddenly possessed again, Freedom evokes the Western - migration. As she begins to speak the first of it begins: a few - timorous stragglers who appear from the trees at the left of the - stage and peer up at her. Her gestures sweep them across the scene - and they come, stopping here and there to build their camp fires. At - the end of her harangue, five or six groups have spaced themselves - along the line of the forestage, and from each group and its camp - fire rises a thin column of smoke so that the varied and splendid - processional of adventure which is to come will be seen behind this - delicate colonnade._] - -FREEDOM - - Out of the east, - Into the west, - A vision of empire, my people, - A vision of rivers and prairies, - Of western mountains and a western ocean. - And of a wider Freedom! - New cities sleep unborn - On the shores of the lakes and the rivers, - Cities to be erected - In a loftier image of Freedom, - Cities, whence new generations, - Forgetful of all save courage, - Shall in their turn set out - Into further western regions, - Building cities and cities, - Building always for Freedom, - Building, renewing, creating.... - Westward, westward, and westward, - Over the walls of the mountains, - Over the blight of the desert, - To the urgent, star-scattered horizon, - Where the stars and the sun and the moon - Rise into the wind and the heavens, - Out of the western ocean, - Out of the west and the east, - People, my people, set forward, - For Freedom! For Freedom! For Freedom! - -THE CHOIR - -(_Shouting._) - -Pioneers! O Pioneers! - - [_With this, the musical accompaniment to Freedom’s words resolves - itself into a triumphal march and the full bulk of the procession - appears crossing from left to right of the stage. First are small - wagons, so light you might almost carry them, as Birkbeck said of - them, “yet strong enough to bear a good load of bedding, utensils and - provisions and a swarm of young citizens.” Others have two horses - and, sometimes, a cow or so. Other wagons are covered with canvas - and blankets. There are Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners with - herds of stock and sheep and the crowd of emigrants is gaily dressed - as any gang of gipsies, red-shirted men, blue and yellow-skirted - women, bright clothes for the children and bright blankets. And - a great light grows up on the right of the stage into which this - procession moves and all the while the circuit riders and hunters - scatter through the crowd on their respective, mimed businesses. At - the same time, shouting over the music, the two Spokesmen and the - Choir have maintained a steady crescendo comment from the “Pioneers, - O Pioneers!” of Walt Whitman._] - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -(_With the end of Freedom’s speech._) - - Come, my tan-faced children, - Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, - Have you your pistols, have you your sharp-edged axes? - Pioneers! - -THE CHOIR - -O Pioneers! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - - Have the elder races halted? - Do they droop and end their lesson wearied over there beyond the seas? - We take up the task eternal and the burden and the lesson, - Pioneers! - -THE CHOIR - -O Pioneers! - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - - All the past we leave behind, - We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, - Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, - Pioneers! - -THE CHOIR - -O Pioneers! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - - We detachments steady throwing, - Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep, - Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways, - Pioneers! - -THE CHOIR - -O Pioneers! - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - - We primeval forests felling, - We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing the deep mines within, - We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving, - Pioneers! - -THE CHOIR - -O Pioneers! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - - All the pulses of the world, - Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat, - Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us, - Pioneers! - -THE CHOIR - -O Pioneers! - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - - Has the night descended? - Was the road of late so toilsome? Did we stop discouraged, nodding on - our way? - Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious, - Pioneers! - -THE CHOIR - -O Pioneers! - -FREEDOM - - Till with sound of trumpet, - Far, far off the daybreak call--hark! how loud I hear it wind, - Swift! to the head of the army!--swift! spring to your places, - Pioneers! - -THE CHOIR - -O Pioneers! - - [_At the final shout of the Choir, the western light turns suddenly - bloody and the procession hurries off into murk and portent. At the - same time a new light breaks over the forestage upon a sinister line - of men which has come in between the thrones of the two Spokesmen._ - - _These men are negroes, naked, save for loin cloths and girdles, - twenty-one in number, and all singers. The hands of each one are - chained to the girdle of the one behind and they move up the slope - toward Freedom in a slow, melancholy “V.”_ - - _As they move, they sing. Their song should, indeed, have scattered - the echoes of the farewell acclamation of the pioneers. The strain - of it is despair that takes refuge in worship. It is one of the old - spirituals, “Go Down Moses.” They move, singing, up to Freedom and - she comes sorrowfully down to meet them and the Chronicler rises._ - - _As the negroes finish their song, they kneel at Freedom’s feet and - she bends over them._] - -FREEDOM - -While you suffer, I am nothing. - -THE CHRONICLER - - The trial of the race comes with the attainment of its empire. - In the west the factions meet already and the issue is the slave. - -FREEDOM - - God alone knows the end - Yet God understands! - - [_The Chronicler sits and a blare of madness comes upon the music and - a new group is upon the forestage. The center of this is an old man, - white bearded, with a bloody head and a halter about his neck. Other - figures stand about a gibbet. The music subsides softly into “John - Brown’s Body” and continues to weave variations upon this until the - final moment when the chorus of Union Soldiers takes it up. In the - meanwhile, this old man, John Brown, speaks._] - -JOHN BROWN - -I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this land will -never be purged away but with blood. For God has given the strength of -the hills to Freedom. No man sent me here. I acknowledge no master in -human form. I pity the poor in bondage that have none to help them. -That is why I am here. You may dispose of me very easily. I am nearly -disposed of now. But this negro question is still to be settled. The -end of that is not yet. I am ready. Do not keep me waiting. In no other -possible way could I be used to so much advantage to the cause of God -and of humanity. - - [_He moves toward the gibbet and the scene goes into darkness with - the pounding of a drum._] - -FOUR VOICES - -A house divided against itself cannot stand. - - [_A pause and the drum again, tapped twice._] - -EIGHT VOICES - -(_Upon a higher note._) - -This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. - - [_Then light upon Freedom._] - -FREEDOM - -(_The light only upon her face._) - - The day attends the sun and the event - Attends the purpose of a steadfast mind. - Always in all upheaval man must find - The purpose of a master’s government. - - Now in the darkling of calamity, - The purpose and the character of one - Called to a generation’s mastery - Come as the sun, - - Come and are known and spend - Their powers hardily, - And, in the end, - Leave to the issue clarity again, - And wisdom to the memories of men. - - [_The light spreading about her discloses the figure of Abraham - Lincoln standing at her feet. People gather at the sides of the - stage._] - -THE CHOIR - -Lincoln ... Lincoln ... Lincoln.... - -LINCOLN - -In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine is -the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. -You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You -have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I -shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. - -THE PEOPLE - -(_Crescendo._) - -Lincoln ... Lincoln ... Lincoln.... - - [_Freedom bends her head upon Lincoln. The negroes look up to him. - The people come a little closer, moving restlessly among themselves - with disturbed, though soundless, gestures._] - -LINCOLN - -I would save the Union.... If there be those who would not save the -Union unless they could, at the same time, save slavery, I do not agree -with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they -could, at the same time, destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. If -I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and -if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I -could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do -that. - - [_Suddenly, as Lincoln’s voice concludes, the people divide - impetuously, and draw back, in two great bodies, to either side of - the stage._ - - _A cannon crashes out and all the people are aghast._ - - _Darkness obscures the two multitudes and the Spokesmen, in the - light, strike antiphonally into the beautiful words which Mr. John - Drinkwater wrote for the characters in his play, “Robert E. Lee.”_] - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -The strain comes and men’s wits break under it and fighting is the only -way out. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -War is the anger of bewildered peoples in front of questions that they -can’t answer. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -The quarrel is so little beside the desolation that is coming. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -One year ... two ... three ... perhaps four! Then there will be just -graves and a story and America. - - [_Suddenly a pool of bloody light explodes upon the right of the - stage and shows a knoll of gray uniforms about the flag of the - Confederacy and the men in the light burst into the wild abandon of - “Dixie.”_ - - _Then another pool of bloody light shows blue uniforms and the men - and all the Chorus behind sing “John Brown’s Body” again, full voice._ - - _Then the light upon Lincoln is white and includes the group of - slaves and the figure of Freedom._] - -LINCOLN - -All persons held as slaves are and, henceforward, shall be free. And -upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, I invoke the -considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. - - [_His hands bless the negroes and all the people look gratefully up - to him and the armies turn their heads toward him._ - - _Two figures detach themselves from the two armies. One is Grant. The - other is Lee. They walk toward each other and the armies fall back in - great weariness. When they meet, the two generals speak._] - -GRANT - -Sir, you have given me occasion to be proud of my opponent. - -LEE - -I have not spared my strength. I acknowledge its defeat. - -GRANT - -You have come-- - -LEE - -To ask upon what terms you will accept surrender. - -GRANT - -(_Presents a slip of paper._) - -They are simple. I hope you will not find them ungenerous. - -LEE - -(_Having read them._) - -You are magnanimous, sir. May I make one submission? - -GRANT - -It would be a privilege if I could consider it. - -LEE - -You allow our officers to keep their horses. That is gracious. Our -cavalry troopers’ horses are also their own. - -GRANT - -I understand. They will be needed for the plowing. Of course, the -officers of the Confederacy will also retain their side arms. - -LEE - -I thank you. It will do much toward conciliating our people. I accept -your terms. - - [_He offers his sword._] - -GRANT - -No, no! I should have included that. It has but one rightful place. - - [_They salute and each returns to his army._] - -LEE - -(_Speaking the close of Lee’s final orders._) - -Valor and devotion can accomplish nothing that will compensate for the -loss that must attend the continuance of the conflict. You may take -with you the satisfaction of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly -pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection. - -GRANT - -(_Speaking the close of Grant’s last message._) - -All that it was possible for men to do in battle they have done. Let -us hope for perpetual peace and harmony with that enemy whose manhood, -however mistaken the cause, drew forth such Herculean deeds of valor. - - [_The bloody light fades and the two armies spread out into the - crowds which now slowly close in._] - -LINCOLN - -With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the -right as God gives us to see the right; let us strive on to finish -the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him -who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan--to -do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among -ourselves and with all nations. - - [_The darkness has gradually closed in upon the scene except for - Freedom’s face._ - - _A great toll of the kettledrums and a voice of a man that cries out - desperately in the darkness._] - -THE VOICE - -Sic semper tyrannis! - - [_The answer is a wail of women._] - -A SECOND VOICE - -(_Again a man’s; more calm and tragic._) - -Now he belongs to the ages. - - [_Again the wail of women._] - -FREEDOM - -O Lincoln! Lincoln! Lincoln! - - [_With this, a shaft of light strikes the stair and shows Freedom - bending over a bier upon which Lincoln lies dead._ - - _A great cry of mourning rises from the crowd, both men and women._ - - _The Choir comments, speaking Walt Whitman’s verse and noble words._] - -THE CHOIR - - This dust was once the man, - Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, - Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, - Was saved the Union of these States. - - [_Gradually, during these lines, a cold light has spread over the - mourning multitude. Every vestige of war is gone. The people stand - with drooping heads facing the stair, every hand holding a spray - of lilac. The freed negroes kneel about the lower steps. A funeral - march, gentle as a song of spring, begins. Men lift up the bier - and carry it up the steps to the second landing. Freedom leads the - cortege; the girls come after. The crowd closes in. At the second - landing, the bier is set down and all the people go past it, filing - out into the darkness which closes in again upon either side. In the - meanwhile, over the music, Freedom and the two Spokesmen speak from - Walt Whitman’s great song of mourning._] - -FREEDOM - - When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, - And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, - I mourned and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. - O powerful western fallen star! - O shades of night--O moody, tearful night! - O great star disappear’d--O the black murk that hides the star! - O cruel hands that hold me powerless--O helpless soul of me! - O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - - Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities, - Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep’d from - the ground, spotting the gray debris, - Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the - endless grass, - Passing the yellow spear’d wheat, every grain from its shroud in the - dark-brown fields uprisen. - Passing the apple tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, - Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, - Night and day journeys a coffin. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - - Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, - Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land, - With the pomp of the inloop’d flags, with the cities draped in - black, - With the show of the states themselves as of crape-veil’d women - standing, - With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, - With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and - unbared heads.... - Here, coffin that slowly passes, - I give you my sprig of lilac. - -FOUR VOICES - - From the deep secluded recesses, - From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still, - Came the carol of a bird. - -FREEDOM - - Come lovely and soothing death, - Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, - In the day, in the night, to all, to each, - Sooner or later, delicate death. - - Prais’d be the fathomless universe, - For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, - And for love, sweet love--but praise! praise! praise! - For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - - The night in silence under many a star, - The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know, - And the soul turning to thee, O base and well-veil’d death, - And the body gratefully nestling close to thee. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - - Over the tree tops I float thee a song, - Over the rising and sinking waves and the myriad fields and the - prairies wide, - Over the dense pack’d cities all and the teeming wharves and ways, - I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee, O death. - -FOUR VOICES - - Loud in the pines and cedars dim, - Clear in the freshness moist and the swamp-perfume, - And I with my comrades there in the night. - -FREEDOM - - Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for - the dead I loved so well, - For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands--and this for - his dear sake, - Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul, - There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. - -THE CHOIR AND ALL THE PEOPLE - -(_Very softly._) - -That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not -perish from the earth. - - [_The light goes again. The crowd goes off. The bier is carried away - under cover of the darkness and to the far sound of the negroes who - sing the same song which first we heard from them._] - - - - -_Part Four_ - -[Illustration] - -“_Our Own Day_” - - - [_The Chronicler rises in light._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -Death that takes Lincoln spares him the disillusion and the time of -waste that comes after him. The face of Freedom is covered and she -turns her gaze away from the land. - -THE CHOIR - -(_Fortissimo_) - - Allons! Through struggles and wars! - The goal that was named cannot be countermanded. - -FOUR VOICES - -We found our own, O my Soul, in the calm and cool of the daybreak. - - [_The beginnings of light upon the scene show Freedom weeping upon - her balustrade, alone on the stair between the two halves of the - Choir._ - - _In the distance the Chorus begins to sing that great chantey of - American labor, “I’ve been working on the Railroad.”_ - - _At the back of the stage, just below the beginning of the stair, is - a pathway of light into which, from either side of the scene, come - single lines of men who bear upon their shoulders rails and ties. - Across the stage they build the transcontinental railroad, forming - sculptural and beautiful groups as they bend over the joints of - the rails and swing their sledges. When the task is completed, the - headlights of engines shine along the lines._ - - _Whereupon two wedges of laborers emerge from the sides of the scene, - lower down on the incline of the stage and stand in pools of flame. - That on the right is the group of steel workers. That on the left is - the group of coal miners._ - - _Whereupon, still lower down stage, two other wedges emerge, - similarly dressed and lighted. They are the groups of farmers and of - builders. Whereupon the forestage is filled with women and children - of a most sorrowful and wretched aspect and with little old men, - poorly dressed and meek of manner._ - - _All of this movement has been executed to the great march of - labor which is built upon the theme of “I’ve been working on the - Railroad.” The band has taken it up from the Chorus and woven it - into a minor dirge and into bizarre dissonances and elaborated it - with syncopations and new themes played upon strange instruments and - sung by the voices of the Chorus so that the whole thing is at once - triumphal and macabre. It rises to magnificent climaxes and subsides - again so that the speakers, the crowds, the Choir and the Spokesmen - may be clearly audible._ - - _At the same time the Spokesmen and the Choir speak antiphonally - against the action and complete the prophecy of Walt Whitman._] - -EIGHT VOICES - -The shapes arise! - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Shapes of the two threaded tracks of railroads! - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft! - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -Shipyards and drydocks along the eastern and western seas and in many a -bay and by-place! - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -The shape of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and -children. - -FULL CHOIR - -The shapes arise! - -FOUR VOICES - -Shapes of Democracy, total, result of centuries! - -EIGHT VOICES - -Shapes ever projecting other shapes! - -TWELVE VOICES - -Shapes of turbulent manly cities! - -TWENTY VOICES - -Shapes of friends and home givers to the whole earth! - -FULL CHOIR - -Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth! - -FOUR VOICES - - In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields - I find the developments - And find the eternal meanings.... - -THE RAILROAD BUILDERS - - O Freedom, in your name, - We have built a railroad across a continent - And linked the east and the west with strips of steel; - We have worked, Freedom, for the empire which is yours, - For that which is not yours is nothing. - - [_Freedom lifts her head and listens._] - -THE STEEL WORKERS - - Steel! Steel! Steel! - Flame and smoke and blood! - We have pounded with our fists, Freedom, - And forged with our hearts, - And our bodies have fed the furnaces, - That your empire, Freedom, might endure in steel - Over the land and upon the seas. - - [_Freedom listens still but gives no sign._] - -THE COAL MINERS - - Though we died in the depths of the earth, we have given coal, - Freedom, in your name. - Though we had many masters, we owned no rule but yours, - For that is vain which is not done for Freedom. - -THE FARMERS - - In your name, Freedom, - We have cleared forests and made deserts bloom - And covered the states with corn and wheat and herds, - And suffered droughts and storms, Freedom, - That yours might be a great empire. - -THE BUILDERS - - Freedom, we have built the fences of your farmers and the roofs of - your cities, - We have made machines of your empire, Freedom, and we have built our - lives into its structure, - For you, Freedom, only for you. - -THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN - - We have given, Freedom, in your hands, our youth and our health and - our beauty - In the fields, and the factories of your empire, Freedom, we have - given all that we had to give, - Holding always to our faith in you. - -THE MEEK MEN - - Durably, without complaint, day after day, - We have filled the little tasks of your empire, Freedom, - Performed little duties and earned little wages, - Without complaining, without understanding, - Save that we worked in your name. - -THE WHOLE CROWD - -Reward us, Freedom! - -THE CHOIR - - Workmen and Workwomen! - I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile ... - I do not say leading you, thought great are not great ... - But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to. - -THE WHOLE CROWD - -Reward us, Freedom! - - [_With one accord the whole crowd turns and lifts its hands to - Freedom. A sudden hush comes and the light on the crowd begins to - pale._] - -FOUR VOICES - -We found our own, O my Soul, in the calm and cool of the daybreak. - -THE CHRONICLER - -The word is Roosevelt’s. - - [_The crowd turns towards the audience and listens as the Spokesmen - speak words of Roosevelt’s._] - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -No nation great as ours can escape the penalty of greatness. Ours is a -government of liberty by, through and under the law. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -No man is above it and no man is below it. - -EIGHT VOICES - - We found our own, O my Soul, in the calm and cool of the daybreak. - -THE CHRONICLER - -The word is Wilson’s. - -THE FIRST SPOKESMAN - -There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste -to succeed and be great. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN - -The great government we loved has too often been made use of for -private and selfish purposes and those who used it had forgotten the -people. - - [_Through all this the music has progressed sometimes tempestuously, - sometimes lyrically. Now it becomes swiftly and terribly sinister - and, behind Freedom, where she sits immobile upon her throne, - flashes of light, bloody and flaming, run along the balustrade of - the uppermost level and the eyes of the people are turned fearfully - upwards. Freedom does not move._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -The world is filled with dread and a great war wages but still Freedom -holds aloof from her people, for this war is not waged in her name -until the prophet, speaking, gives it meaning. - -THE FULL CHOIR - - Allons, through struggles and wars! - The goal that was named cannot be countermanded. - -THE CHRONICLER - -Again, the word is Wilson’s. - - [_Freedom rises._ - - _The lurid terrace shifts and swarms with figures seen through smoke. - Now a new army of olive drab bursts up over the crest and the next - lines are shouted by the Choir over a wild pantomime of battle._] - -FIRST SPOKESMAN AND EIGHT VOICES - -We are glad now to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and -for the liberation of its peoples. - -THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND SIXTEEN VOICES - -The world must be made safe for democracy. - -FREEDOM AND FOUR VOICES - -To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything -that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who -know that the day is come when America is privileged to spend her blood -and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and -the peace which she has treasured. - -THE WHOLE CHOIR - -God helping her, she can do no other! - - [_A great frenzy of enthusiasm takes the crowd and the music lifts - itself into a supreme climax. But Freedom’s two arms go up for - silence and the four Voices are heard again, the words of Carl - Sandburg._] - -EIGHT VOICES - -(_Intoning upon a high wild note._) - - Smash down the cities, - Knock the walls to pieces. - Break the factories and cathedrals, warehouses and homes - Into loose piles of stone and lumber and black burnt wood: - You are the soldiers and we command you. - - [_The light dies upon the uppermost terrace and increases upon the - crowd._] - -FOUR OTHER VOICES - - Build up the cities. - Set up the walls again. - Put together once more the factories and cathedrals, warehouses and - homes - Into buildings for life and labor; - You are the workmen and citizens all: We command you. - - [_Again Freedom’s face falls. She comes disconsolately down the - stair._] - -THE PEOPLE - -Ah! - -FOUR OTHER VOICES - -(_Again from Sandburg._) - - Make us one new dream, us who forgot, - Out of the storm let us have one star. - - [_She stops and looks mournfully down upon them, all the people, and - shakes her head._ - - _Whereupon, the music going mad again, the people begin all to move - and shift about in little, futile designs and, at the same time, on - Freedom’s left, a cone of men shoot acrobatically up. There are not - more than a dozen figures in it. They wear hot purples and outrageous - masks and speak in unison._] - -THE CONE - - You people, - What are you to Freedom? - What is Freedom to you? - You have no rights, but only duties. - Produce! - Faster and faster. - Harder and harder. - It doesn’t matter - How tired you are. - Produce, do you hear? - - [_Whereupon a second cone shoots up on Freedom’s right. It is exactly - like the first except that the men in it are dressed in dirty red and - orange._] - -THE SECOND CONE - - You people! - Stand up for your rights! - To hell with your duties! - Do you want Freedom? - Well, then, organize! - Wealth is labor! - Property is labor! - Capital is labor! - Organize! - - - [_Whereupon a third cone shoots up at Freedom’s very feet, a cone all - of black with senatorial hats topping the masked faces._] - -THE THIRD CONE - - You people! - Forget about freedom! - Government’s government. - Republican. Democrat. - Right or wrong, - My country still! - The Constitution, - Wonderful instrument! - Land of the Free - And the home of the Brave! - Politics. Politics. - Don’t forget Washington, - Lincoln or Hamilton. - What did they tell you? - Worship the government. - - [_The three cones disappear as magically as they appeared and, in - their place about Freedom’s feet, is a fan of scarlet figures._] - -THE FAN - - You masses! You masses! You masses! - Do you know your power? - Do you know your meaning? - Do you know what you can do? - We’re Freedom. - We’re Russia! - We’re God! - Awake masses! - You are the state! - You are the world! - You are the universe! - Take what is yours. - - [_All this while the people, to swifter and swifter music, always - more and more macabre and dissonant, have moved ever and ever more - swiftly. Now the music comes back to a horrible parody of “I’ve been - working on the Railroad” and the movement takes shape in designs and - formal groups, large and small. And the men who made up three cones - and the fan surge over the stair and drag Freedom down so that she is - lost in the whirling mob. And the light, broken and colorful, dies to - gloom and the movement is a movement of patterns and the music drowns - all, singing and instrumental. Then, just at the front of the stage, - just above the throne of the Chronicler, a single ray of white light - breaks upon Freedom again and, along the upper level, the light once - more lifts, and as Freedom begins to speak, it seems to be daybreak._] - -FREEDOM - -Lost! Lost! Lost! - - [_The desperate cry pierces all the tumult and brings complete - silence upon the scene._] - - O People, my People, my People, - Where are your wits and your hearts and your souls? - What have you done with the destiny I left you? - Fools! Fools! Fools! - - [_A stricken sigh goes up from the people and those about Freedom - fall upon their knees._] - - Man does not seek the dream that is not his, - Nor dream the search to which he was not destined, - Nor hope for that which he does not believe. - Who would be free is free; - Who would be otherwise is otherwise. - Ever man is himself man’s enemy; - Ever man’s fear to be himself shall be - Between man and man’s liberty. - - [_A murmur goes up from the people. She looks sorrowfully and - majestically over them._] - - Soldiers of Freedom! - Comrades of Freedom! - Brothers of Freedom! - Children of Freedom! - Not slaves, but men! - Not sheep, but men! - Not masses, but men! - - I cannot set you free who were born free. - Nor strike your shackles off who were born slaves. - Be to yourselves yourselves, the rest is glory. - - [_A louder murmur and many of the crowd lift their hands to her._] - - Workmen and workwomen! - Children and aged! - You were born of the past! - You are pledged to the future. - - [_She goes a little up among the kneeling crowd._] - - Soldiers of Freedom, - Comrades of Freedom, - Brothers of Freedom, - You! You! And You! - I lead again! I live again! I love! - Who dares to follow now! - Who comes beside me, bravely and alone, - Not one of masses, but as man alone? - What, none? - Are you all masses, then? - - [_Some of them come eagerly up to her._] - - You, have you faith? - You, are you honest? - You, is your spirit strong? - You, can you face the sun? - Why then, come on! - Come on! On! On! - I lead--Come on! Come on! - - [_She plunges up the slope toward the light, her own refulgence - illuminating those who come immediately after her. The music reaches - its wildest and highest point as the crowds falling in widely behind - her, begins to ascend the slope. Freedom is seen to pause and wave - the crowd on and a great cone of humanity moves up the stair. Then - the music stops upon a tremendous major resolution and Freedom is - standing at the top of the stair at last and all the people, their - arms reached upwards to her, are spread out below and the light is - blinding. The music gives way to a rolling of drums and from the - hills come crazy voices invoked by the wild cries and the wilder arms - of Freedom most transfigured, most blazing of all._] - -FREEDOM - -Soldiers of Freedom out of the past of the race, huzza! - -A VOICE - -(_Screaming wildly._) - -Don’t shoot till you see the whites of their eyes! - -FREEDOM - -Again! - -ANOTHER VOICE - -(_Wilder and from a different position._) - -If they mean to have a war let it begin here! - -FREEDOM - -Again! - -ANOTHER VOICE - -Trust in God and keep your powder dry! - -ANOTHER VOICE - -We have not yet begun to fight! - - [_Now rockets are bursting in the air, gorgeous beautiful rockets._] - -FREEDOM - -Brothers of Freedom, out of the past of the race, your songs! - -SEVERAL VOICES - -(_Singing wildly._) - - Yankee Doodle came to town, - Riding on a pony, - Stuck a feather in his hat - And called it macaroni! - Yankee Doodle.... - -OTHER VOICES - -I’ll fight it out on this line if it takes all summer! Give me -liberty or give me death! Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and -inseparable! Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute! A war -to end war! Don’t give up the ship! Lafayette, here we are! Too proud -to fight! In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress! - -OTHER VOICES - - John Brown’s body lies a moulding in the grave, - John Brown’s body lies a moulding in the grave, - John Brown’s body lies a moulding in the grave, - But his soul goes marching on! - Glory, glory, hallelujah! - Glory, glory.... - -OTHER VOICES - - Way down south in the land of cotton, - Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom, - Look away, look away, look away, look away! - That’s the land where I was born in.... - -OTHER VOICES - -Over there! Over there! Over there! Over there! Over there! The Yanks -are coming.... - - [_By this the light has gone from the people and shines only upon - Freedom who turns and holds her hands out over all the multitude. A - terrific flight of rockets bursts with a terrific explosion. Then - there is absolute silence._] - -FREEDOM - -(_Coming through the crowds, back down the stair._) - - Children of Freedom, - Out of the mind of God, - Hear ye the truth-- - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees!... - Can ye grow grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? - What man, by taking thought, can add a cubit to his stature? - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees! - To him that hath shall be given. From him that hath not shall be taken - away even that which he hath.... - Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.... - Seek and ye shall find.... - - [_With each line of the words of Jesus she has come a little further - down the stair. At the last, she stands above the Chronicler’s throne - and, on either side of her, two youths kneel, who have followed her - down from the Choir. When she has come to the bottom of the slope - and when the darkness has taken all else but her figure, she turns - her back upon the audience and her hands go out as though she evoked - one further image out of the past. We see it, as light scatters the - darkness above her--the Common of Lexington in the cold dawn of the - Glorious Morning and the line of Minute Men drawn up across it. The - Chronicler rises._] - -THE CHRONICLER - -One hundred and fifty years ago there was fought upon this place a -battle. Out of that battle came a nation and a nation’s race and a -race’s vision of freedom. - - [_Then the four boys from the Choir speak together as the light - goes._] - -THE FOUR BOYS - -The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but -it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, -rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who -fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be -here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these -honored dead we take increased devotion; that we here highly resolve -that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under -God, shall have a new birth of Freedom; and that government of the -people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. - - [_The darkness is now complete. The Chronicler has closed his book. - In the hills, a bugle blows taps. 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