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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/9217-0.txt b/9217-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90989e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/9217-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,682 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lily’s Quest (From “Twice Told Tales”), by +Nathaniel Hawthorne + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere 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 + + +Title: The Lily’s Quest (From “Twice Told Tales”) + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Release Date: November, 2005 [EBook #9217] +First Posted: August 23, 2003 +Last Updated: December 14, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LILY’S QUEST *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + + + + + TWICE TOLD TALES + + THE LILY’S QUEST + + By Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + +Two lovers, once upon a time, had planned a little summer-house, in +the form of an antique temple, which it was their purpose to +consecrate to all manner of refined and innocent enjoyments. There +they would hold pleasant intercourse with one another, and the circle +of their familiar friends; there they would give festivals of +delicious fruit; there they would hear lightsome music, intermingled +with the strains of pathos which make joy more sweet; there they would +read poetry and fiction, and permit their own minds to flit away in +daydreams and romance; there, in short,--for why should we shape out +the vague sunshine of their hopes?--there all pure delights were to +cluster like roses among the pillars of the edifice, and blossom ever +new and spontaneously. So, one breezy and cloudless afternoon, Adam +Forrester and Lilias Fay set out upon a ramble over the wide estate +which they were to possess together, seeking a proper site for their +Temple of Happiness. They were themselves a fair and happy spectacle, +fit priest and priestess for such a shrine; although, making poetry of +the pretty name of Lilias, Adam Forrester was wont to call her LILY, +because her form was as fragile, and her cheek almost as pale. + +As they passed, hand in hand, down the avenue of drooping elms, that +led from the portal of Lilies Fay’s paternal mansion, they seemed to +glance like winged creatures through the strips of sunshine, and to +scatter brightness where the deep shadows fell. But, setting forth at +the same time with this youthful pair, there was a dismal figure, +wrapped in a black velvet cloak that might have been made of a coffin +pall, and with a sombre hat, such as mourners wear, drooping its broad +brim over his heavy brows. Glancing behind them, the lovers well knew +who it was that followed, but wished from their hearts that he had +been elsewhere, as being a companion so strangely unsuited to their +joyous errand. It was a near relative of Lilies Fay, an old man by +the name of Walter Gascoigne, who had long labored under the burden of +a melancholy spirit, which was sometimes maddened into absolute +insanity, and always had a tinge of it. What a contrast between the +young pilgrims of bliss and their unbidden associate! They looked as +if moulded of Heaven’s sunshine, and he of earth’s gloomiest shade; +they flitted along like Hope and Joy, roaming hand in hand through +life; while his darksome figure stalked behind, a type of all the +woeful influences which life could fling upon them. But the three had +not gone far, when they reached a spot that pleased the gentle Lily, +and she paused. + +“What sweeter place shall we find than this?” said she. “Why should +we seek farther for the site of our Temple?” + +It was indeed a delightful spot of earth, though undistinguished by +any very prominent beauties, being merely a nook in the shelter of a +hill, with the prospect of a distant lake in one direction, and of a +church-spire in another. There were vistas and pathways leading +onward and onward into the green woodlands, and vanishing away in the +glimmering shade. The Temple, if erected here, would look towards the +west: so that the lovers could shape all sorts of magnificent dreams +out of the purple, violet, and gold of the sunset sky; and few of +their anticipated pleasures were dearer than this sport of fantasy. + +“Yes,” said Adam Forrester, “we might seek all day, and find no +lovelier spot. We will build our Temple here.” + +But their sad old companion, who had taken his stand on the very site +which they proposed to cover with a marble floor, shook his head and +frowned; and the young man and the Lily deemed it almost enough to +blight the spot, and desecrate it for their airy Temple, that his +dismal figure had thrown its shadow there. He pointed to some +scattered stones, the remnants of a former structure, and to flowers +such as young girls delight to nurse in their gardens, but which had +now relapsed into the wild simplicity of nature. + +“Not here!” cried old Walter Gascoigne. “Here, long ago, other +mortals built their Temple of Happiness. Seek another site for +yours!” + +“What!” exclaimed Lilias Fay. “Have any ever planned such a Temple, +save ourselves?” + +“Poor child!” said her gloomy kinsman. “In one shape or other, every +mortal has dreamed your dream.” + +Then he told the lovers, how--not, indeed, an antique Temple--but a +dwelling had once stood there, and that a dark-clad guest had dwelt +among its inmates, sitting forever at the fireside, and poisoning all +their household mirth. Under this type, Adam Forrester and Lilias saw +that the old man spake of Sorrow. He told of nothing that might not +be recorded in the history of almost every household; and yet his +hearers felt as if no sunshine ought to fall upon a spot where human +grief had left so deep a stain; or, at least, that no joyous Temple +should be built there. + +“This is very sad,” said the Lily; sighing. + +“Well, there are lovelier spots than this,” said Adam Forrester, +soothingly,--“spots which sorrow has not blighted.” + +So they hastened away, and the melancholy Gascoigne followed them, +looking as if he had gathered up all the gloom of the deserted spot, +and was hearing it as a burden of inestimable treasure. But still +they rambled on, and soon found themselves in a rocky dell, through +the midst of which ran a streamlet, with ripple, and foam, and a +continual voice of inarticulate joy. It was a wild retreat, walled on +either side with gray precipices, which would have frowned somewhat +too sternly, had not a profusion of green shrubbery rooted itself into +their crevices, and wreathed gladsome foliage around their solemn +brows. But the chief joy of the dell was in the little stream, which +seemed like the presence of a blissful child, with nothing earthly to +do save to babble merrily and disport itself, and make every living +soul its playfellow, and throw the sunny gleams of its spirit upon +all. + +“Here, here is the spot!” cried the two lovers with one voice, as they +reached a level space on the brink of a small cascade. “This glen was +made on purpose for our Temple!” + +“And the glad song of the brook will be always in our ears,” said +Lilias Fay. + +“And its long melody shall sing the bliss of our lifetime,” said Adam +Forrester. + +“Ye must build no Temple here!” murmured their dismal companion. + +And there again was the old lunatic, standing just on the spot where +they meant to rear their lightsome dome, and looking like the embodied +symbol of some great woe, that, in forgotten days, had happened there. +And, alas! there had been woe, nor that alone. A young man, more than +a hundred years before, had lured hither a girl that loved him, and on +this spot had murdered her, and washed his bloody hands in the stream +which sung so merrily. And ever since, the victim’s death-shrieks were +often heard to echo between the cliffs. + +“And see!” cried old Gascoigne, “is the stream yet pure from the stain +of the murderer’s hands?” + +“Methinks it has a tinge of blood,” faintly answered the Lily; and +being as slight as the gossamer, she trembled and clung to her lover’s +arm, whispering, “let us flee from this dreadful vale!” + +“Come, then,” said Adam Forrester, as cheerily as he could; “we shall +soon find a happier spot.” + +They set forth again, young Pilgrims on that quest which millions--which +every child of Earth--has tried in turn. And were the Lily and +her lover to be more fortunate than all those millions? For a long +time, it seemed not so. The dismal shape of the old lunatic still +glided behind them; and for every spot that looked lovely in their +eyes, he had some legend of human wrong or suffering, so miserably +sad, that his auditors could never afterwards connect the idea of joy +with the place where it had happened. Here, a heart-broken woman, +kneeling to her child, had been spurned from his feet; here, a +desolate old creature had prayed to the Evil One, and had received a +fiendish malignity of soul, in answer to her prayer; here, a new-born +infant, sweet blossom of life, had been found dead, with the impress +of its mother’s fingers round its throat; and here, under a shattered +oak, two lovers had been stricken by lightning, and fell blackened +corpses in each other’s arms. The dreary Gascoigne had a gift to know +whatever evil and lamentable thing had stained the bosom of Mother +Earth; and when his funereal voice had told the tale, it appeared like +a prophecy of future woe, as well as a tradition of the past. And +now, by their sad demeanor, you would have fancied that the pilgrim +lovers were seeking, not a temple of earthly joy, but a tomb for +themselves and their posterity. + +“Where in this world,” exclaimed Adam Forrester, despondingly, “shall +we build our Temple of Happiness?” + +“Where in this world, indeed!” repeated Lilias Fay; and being faint +and weary, the more so by the heaviness of her heart, the Lily drooped +her head and sat down on the summit of a knoll, repeating, “Where in +this world shall we build our Temple?” + +“Ah! have you already asked yourselves that question?” said their +companion, his shaded features growing even gloomier with the smile +that dwelt on them; “yet there is a place, even in this world, where +ye may build it.” + +While the old man spoke, Adam Forrester and Lilias had carelessly +thrown their eyes around, and perceived that the spot where they had +chanced to pause possessed a quiet charm, which was well enough +adapted to their present mood of mind. It was a small rise of ground, +with a certain regularity of shape, that had perhaps been bestowed by +art; and a group of trees, which almost surrounded it, threw their +pensive shadows across and far beyond, although some softened glory of +the sunshine found its way there. The ancestral mansion, wherein the +lovers would dwell together, appeared on one side, and the ivied +church, where they were to worship, on another. Happening to cast +their eyes on the ground, they smiled, yet with a sense of wonder, to +see that a pale lily was growing at their feet. + +“We will build our Temple here,” said they, simultaneously, and with +an indescribable conviction, that they had at last found the very +spot. + +Yet, while they uttered this exclamation, the young man and the Lily +turned an apprehensive glance at their dreary associate, deeming it +hardly possible, that some tale of earthly affliction should not make +those precincts loathsome, as in every former case. The old man stood +just behind them, so as to form the chief figure in the group, with +his sable cloak muffling the lower part of his visage, and his sombre +list overshadowing his brows. But he gave no word of dissent from +their purpose; and an inscrutable smile was accepted by the lovers as +a token that here had been no footprint of guilt or sorrow, to +desecrate the site of their Temple of Happiness. + +In a little time longer, while summer was still in its prime, the +fairy structure of the Temple arose on the summit of the knoll, amid +the solemn shadows of the trees, yet often gladdened with bright +sunshine. It was built of white marble, with slender and graceful +pillars, supporting a vaulted dome; and beneath the centre of this +dome, upon a pedestal, was a slab of dark-veined marble, on which +books and music might be strewn. But there was a fantasy among the +people of the neighborhood, that the edifice was planned after an +ancient mausoleum, and was intended for a tomb, and that the central +slab of dark-veined marble was to be inscribed with the names of +buried ones. They doubted, too, whether the form of Lilias Fay could +appertain to a creature of this earth, being so very delicate, and +growing every day more fragile, so that she looked as if the summer +breeze should snatch her up, and waft her heavenward. But still she +watched the daily growth of the Temple; and so did old Walter +Gascoigne, who now made that spot his continual haunt, leaning whole +hours together on his staff, and giving as deep attention to the work +as though it had been indeed a tomb. In due time it was finished, and +a day appointed for a simple rite of dedication. + +On the preceding evening, after Adam Forrester had taken leave of his +mistress, he looked back towards the portal of her dwelling, and felt +a strange thrill of fear; for he imagined that, as the setting +sunbeams faded from her figure, she was exhaling away, and that +something of her ethereal substance was withdrawn, with each lessening +gleam of light. With his farewell glance, a shadow had fallen over +the portal, and Lilias was invisible. His foreboding spirit deemed it +an omen at the time; and so it proved; for the sweet earthly form, by +which the Lily bad been manifested to the world, was found lifeless, +the next morning, in the Temple, with her head resting on her arms, +which were folded upon the slab of dark-veined marble. The chill +winds of the earth had long since breathed a blight into this +beautiful flower, so that a loving hand had now transplanted it, to +blossom brightly in the garden of Paradise. + +But, alas for the Temple of Happiness! In his unutterable grief, Adam +Forrester had no purpose more at heart than to convert this Temple of +many delightful hopes into a tomb, and bury his dead mistress there. +And to! a wonder! Digging a grave beneath the Temple’s marble floor, +the sexton found no virgin earth, such as was meet to receive the +maiden’s dust, but an ancient sepulchre, in which were treasured up +the bones of generations that had died long ago. Among those forgotten +ancestors was the Lily to be laid. And when the funeral procession +brought Lilias thither in her coffin, they beheld old Walter Gascoigne +standing beneath the dome of the Temple, with his cloak of pall, and +face of darkest gloom; and wherever that figure might take its stand, +the spot would seem a sepulchre. He watched the mourners as they +lowered the coffin down. + +“And so,” said he to Adam Forrester, with the strange smile in which +his insanity was wont to gleam forth, “you have found no better +foundation for your happiness than on a grave!” + +But as the Shadow of Affliction spoke, a vision of Hope and Joy had +its birth in Adam’s mind, even from the old man’s taunting words; for +then he knew what was betokened by the parable in which the Lily and +himself had acted; and the mystery of Life and Death was opened to +him. + +“Joy! joy!” he cried, throwing his arms towards Heaven, “on a grave +be the site of our Temple; and now our happiness is for Eternity!” + +With those words, a ray of sunshine broke through the dismal sky, and +glimmered down into the sepulchre; while, at the same moment, the +shape of old Walter Gascoigne stalked drearily away, because his +gloom, symbolic of all earthly sorrow, might no longer abide there, +now that the darkest riddle of humanity was read. + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lily’s Quest (From “Twice Told +Tales”), by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LILY’S QUEST *** + +***** This file should be named 9217-0.txt or 9217-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/1/9217/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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 + + +Title: The Lily's Quest (From "Twice Told Tales") + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + + +Release Date: November, 2005 [EBook #9217] +First Posted: August 23, 2003 +Last Updated: December 14, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LILY'S QUEST *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger and Al Haines. + + + + + +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + TWICE TOLD TALES<br /> + </h3> + <h2> + THE LILY’S QUEST<br /> + </h2> + <h3> + By Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /> + </h3> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <p> + Two lovers, once upon a time, had planned a little summer-house, in the + form of an antique temple, which it was their purpose to consecrate to all + manner of refined and innocent enjoyments. There they would hold pleasant + intercourse with one another, and the circle of their familiar friends; + there they would give festivals of delicious fruit; there they would hear + lightsome music, intermingled with the strains of pathos which make joy + more sweet; there they would read poetry and fiction, and permit their own + minds to flit away in daydreams and romance; there, in short,—for + why should we shape out the vague sunshine of their hopes?—there all + pure delights were to cluster like roses among the pillars of the edifice, + and blossom ever new and spontaneously. So, one breezy and cloudless + afternoon, Adam Forrester and Lilias Fay set out upon a ramble over the + wide estate which they were to possess together, seeking a proper site for + their Temple of Happiness. They were themselves a fair and happy + spectacle, fit priest and priestess for such a shrine; although, making + poetry of the pretty name of Lilias, Adam Forrester was wont to call her + LILY, because her form was as fragile, and her cheek almost as pale. + </p> + <p> + As they passed, hand in hand, down the avenue of drooping elms, that led + from the portal of Lilies Fay’s paternal mansion, they seemed to glance + like winged creatures through the strips of sunshine, and to scatter + brightness where the deep shadows fell. But, setting forth at the same + time with this youthful pair, there was a dismal figure, wrapped in a + black velvet cloak that might have been made of a coffin pall, and with a + sombre hat, such as mourners wear, drooping its broad brim over his heavy + brows. Glancing behind them, the lovers well knew who it was that + followed, but wished from their hearts that he had been elsewhere, as + being a companion so strangely unsuited to their joyous errand. It was a + near relative of Lilies Fay, an old man by the name of Walter Gascoigne, + who had long labored under the burden of a melancholy spirit, which was + sometimes maddened into absolute insanity, and always had a tinge of it. + What a contrast between the young pilgrims of bliss and their unbidden + associate! They looked as if moulded of Heaven’s sunshine, and he of + earth’s gloomiest shade; they flitted along like Hope and Joy, roaming + hand in hand through life; while his darksome figure stalked behind, a + type of all the woeful influences which life could fling upon them. But + the three had not gone far, when they reached a spot that pleased the + gentle Lily, and she paused. + </p> + <p> + “What sweeter place shall we find than this?” said she. “Why should we + seek farther for the site of our Temple?” + </p> + <p> + It was indeed a delightful spot of earth, though undistinguished by any + very prominent beauties, being merely a nook in the shelter of a hill, + with the prospect of a distant lake in one direction, and of a + church-spire in another. There were vistas and pathways leading onward and + onward into the green woodlands, and vanishing away in the glimmering + shade. The Temple, if erected here, would look towards the west: so that + the lovers could shape all sorts of magnificent dreams out of the purple, + violet, and gold of the sunset sky; and few of their anticipated pleasures + were dearer than this sport of fantasy. + </p> + <p> + “Yes,” said Adam Forrester, “we might seek all day, and find no lovelier + spot. We will build our Temple here.” + </p> + <p> + But their sad old companion, who had taken his stand on the very site + which they proposed to cover with a marble floor, shook his head and + frowned; and the young man and the Lily deemed it almost enough to blight + the spot, and desecrate it for their airy Temple, that his dismal figure + had thrown its shadow there. He pointed to some scattered stones, the + remnants of a former structure, and to flowers such as young girls delight + to nurse in their gardens, but which had now relapsed into the wild + simplicity of nature. + </p> + <p> + “Not here!” cried old Walter Gascoigne. “Here, long ago, other mortals + built their Temple of Happiness. Seek another site for yours!” + </p> + <p> + “What!” exclaimed Lilias Fay. “Have any ever planned such a Temple, save + ourselves?” + </p> + <p> + “Poor child!” said her gloomy kinsman. “In one shape or other, every + mortal has dreamed your dream.” + </p> + <p> + Then he told the lovers, how—not, indeed, an antique Temple—but + a dwelling had once stood there, and that a dark-clad guest had dwelt + among its inmates, sitting forever at the fireside, and poisoning all + their household mirth. Under this type, Adam Forrester and Lilias saw that + the old man spake of Sorrow. He told of nothing that might not be recorded + in the history of almost every household; and yet his hearers felt as if + no sunshine ought to fall upon a spot where human grief had left so deep a + stain; or, at least, that no joyous Temple should be built there. + </p> + <p> + “This is very sad,” said the Lily; sighing. + </p> + <p> + “Well, there are lovelier spots than this,” said Adam Forrester, + soothingly,—“spots which sorrow has not blighted.” + </p> + <p> + So they hastened away, and the melancholy Gascoigne followed them, looking + as if he had gathered up all the gloom of the deserted spot, and was + hearing it as a burden of inestimable treasure. But still they rambled on, + and soon found themselves in a rocky dell, through the midst of which ran + a streamlet, with ripple, and foam, and a continual voice of inarticulate + joy. It was a wild retreat, walled on either side with gray precipices, + which would have frowned somewhat too sternly, had not a profusion of + green shrubbery rooted itself into their crevices, and wreathed gladsome + foliage around their solemn brows. But the chief joy of the dell was in + the little stream, which seemed like the presence of a blissful child, + with nothing earthly to do save to babble merrily and disport itself, and + make every living soul its playfellow, and throw the sunny gleams of its + spirit upon all. + </p> + <p> + “Here, here is the spot!” cried the two lovers with one voice, as they + reached a level space on the brink of a small cascade. “This glen was made + on purpose for our Temple!” + </p> + <p> + “And the glad song of the brook will be always in our ears,” said Lilias + Fay. + </p> + <p> + “And its long melody shall sing the bliss of our lifetime,” said Adam + Forrester. + </p> + <p> + “Ye must build no Temple here!” murmured their dismal companion. + </p> + <p> + And there again was the old lunatic, standing just on the spot where they + meant to rear their lightsome dome, and looking like the embodied symbol + of some great woe, that, in forgotten days, had happened there. And, alas! + there had been woe, nor that alone. A young man, more than a hundred years + before, had lured hither a girl that loved him, and on this spot had + murdered her, and washed his bloody hands in the stream which sung so + merrily. And ever since, the victim’s death-shrieks were often heard to + echo between the cliffs. + </p> + <p> + “And see!” cried old Gascoigne, “is the stream yet pure from the stain of + the murderer’s hands?” + </p> + <p> + “Methinks it has a tinge of blood,” faintly answered the Lily; and being + as slight as the gossamer, she trembled and clung to her lover’s arm, + whispering, “let us flee from this dreadful vale!” + </p> + <p> + “Come, then,” said Adam Forrester, as cheerily as he could; “we shall soon + find a happier spot.” + </p> + <p> + They set forth again, young Pilgrims on that quest which millions—which + every child of Earth—has tried in turn. And were the Lily and her + lover to be more fortunate than all those millions? For a long time, it + seemed not so. The dismal shape of the old lunatic still glided behind + them; and for every spot that looked lovely in their eyes, he had some + legend of human wrong or suffering, so miserably sad, that his auditors + could never afterwards connect the idea of joy with the place where it had + happened. Here, a heart-broken woman, kneeling to her child, had been + spurned from his feet; here, a desolate old creature had prayed to the + Evil One, and had received a fiendish malignity of soul, in answer to her + prayer; here, a new-born infant, sweet blossom of life, had been found + dead, with the impress of its mother’s fingers round its throat; and here, + under a shattered oak, two lovers had been stricken by lightning, and fell + blackened corpses in each other’s arms. The dreary Gascoigne had a gift to + know whatever evil and lamentable thing had stained the bosom of Mother + Earth; and when his funereal voice had told the tale, it appeared like a + prophecy of future woe, as well as a tradition of the past. And now, by + their sad demeanor, you would have fancied that the pilgrim lovers were + seeking, not a temple of earthly joy, but a tomb for themselves and their + posterity. + </p> + <p> + “Where in this world,” exclaimed Adam Forrester, despondingly, “shall we + build our Temple of Happiness?” + </p> + <p> + “Where in this world, indeed!” repeated Lilias Fay; and being faint and + weary, the more so by the heaviness of her heart, the Lily drooped her + head and sat down on the summit of a knoll, repeating, “Where in this + world shall we build our Temple?” + </p> + <p> + “Ah! have you already asked yourselves that question?” said their + companion, his shaded features growing even gloomier with the smile that + dwelt on them; “yet there is a place, even in this world, where ye may + build it.” + </p> + <p> + While the old man spoke, Adam Forrester and Lilias had carelessly thrown + their eyes around, and perceived that the spot where they had chanced to + pause possessed a quiet charm, which was well enough adapted to their + present mood of mind. It was a small rise of ground, with a certain + regularity of shape, that had perhaps been bestowed by art; and a group of + trees, which almost surrounded it, threw their pensive shadows across and + far beyond, although some softened glory of the sunshine found its way + there. The ancestral mansion, wherein the lovers would dwell together, + appeared on one side, and the ivied church, where they were to worship, on + another. Happening to cast their eyes on the ground, they smiled, yet with + a sense of wonder, to see that a pale lily was growing at their feet. + </p> + <p> + “We will build our Temple here,” said they, simultaneously, and with an + indescribable conviction, that they had at last found the very spot. + </p> + <p> + Yet, while they uttered this exclamation, the young man and the Lily + turned an apprehensive glance at their dreary associate, deeming it hardly + possible, that some tale of earthly affliction should not make those + precincts loathsome, as in every former case. The old man stood just + behind them, so as to form the chief figure in the group, with his sable + cloak muffling the lower part of his visage, and his sombre list + overshadowing his brows. But he gave no word of dissent from their + purpose; and an inscrutable smile was accepted by the lovers as a token + that here had been no footprint of guilt or sorrow, to desecrate the site + of their Temple of Happiness. + </p> + <p> + In a little time longer, while summer was still in its prime, the fairy + structure of the Temple arose on the summit of the knoll, amid the solemn + shadows of the trees, yet often gladdened with bright sunshine. It was + built of white marble, with slender and graceful pillars, supporting a + vaulted dome; and beneath the centre of this dome, upon a pedestal, was a + slab of dark-veined marble, on which books and music might be strewn. But + there was a fantasy among the people of the neighborhood, that the edifice + was planned after an ancient mausoleum, and was intended for a tomb, and + that the central slab of dark-veined marble was to be inscribed with the + names of buried ones. They doubted, too, whether the form of Lilias Fay + could appertain to a creature of this earth, being so very delicate, and + growing every day more fragile, so that she looked as if the summer breeze + should snatch her up, and waft her heavenward. But still she watched the + daily growth of the Temple; and so did old Walter Gascoigne, who now made + that spot his continual haunt, leaning whole hours together on his staff, + and giving as deep attention to the work as though it had been indeed a + tomb. In due time it was finished, and a day appointed for a simple rite + of dedication. + </p> + <p> + On the preceding evening, after Adam Forrester had taken leave of his + mistress, he looked back towards the portal of her dwelling, and felt a + strange thrill of fear; for he imagined that, as the setting sunbeams + faded from her figure, she was exhaling away, and that something of her + ethereal substance was withdrawn, with each lessening gleam of light. With + his farewell glance, a shadow had fallen over the portal, and Lilias was + invisible. His foreboding spirit deemed it an omen at the time; and so it + proved; for the sweet earthly form, by which the Lily bad been manifested + to the world, was found lifeless, the next morning, in the Temple, with + her head resting on her arms, which were folded upon the slab of + dark-veined marble. The chill winds of the earth had long since breathed a + blight into this beautiful flower, so that a loving hand had now + transplanted it, to blossom brightly in the garden of Paradise. + </p> + <p> + But, alas for the Temple of Happiness! In his unutterable grief, Adam + Forrester had no purpose more at heart than to convert this Temple of many + delightful hopes into a tomb, and bury his dead mistress there. And to! a + wonder! Digging a grave beneath the Temple’s marble floor, the sexton + found no virgin earth, such as was meet to receive the maiden’s dust, but + an ancient sepulchre, in which were treasured up the bones of generations + that had died long ago. Among those forgotten ancestors was the Lily to be + laid. And when the funeral procession brought Lilias thither in her + coffin, they beheld old Walter Gascoigne standing beneath the dome of the + Temple, with his cloak of pall, and face of darkest gloom; and wherever + that figure might take its stand, the spot would seem a sepulchre. He + watched the mourners as they lowered the coffin down. + </p> + <p> + “And so,” said he to Adam Forrester, with the strange smile in which his + insanity was wont to gleam forth, “you have found no better foundation for + your happiness than on a grave!” + </p> + <p> + But as the Shadow of Affliction spoke, a vision of Hope and Joy had its + birth in Adam’s mind, even from the old man’s taunting words; for then he + knew what was betokened by the parable in which the Lily and himself had + acted; and the mystery of Life and Death was opened to him. + </p> + <p> + “Joy! joy!” he cried, throwing his arms towards Heaven, “on a grave be the + site of our Temple; and now our happiness is for Eternity!” + </p> + <p> + With those words, a ray of sunshine broke through the dismal sky, and + glimmered down into the sepulchre; while, at the same moment, the shape of + old Walter Gascoigne stalked drearily away, because his gloom, symbolic of + all earthly sorrow, might no longer abide there, now that the darkest + riddle of humanity was read. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lily’s Quest (From “Twice Told +Tales”), by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LILY’S QUEST *** + +***** This file should be named 9217-h.htm or 9217-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/1/9217/ + +Produced by David Widger and Al Haines. + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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 + + +Title: The Lily's Quest (From "Twice Told Tales") + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Posting Date: December 2, 2010 [EBook #9217] +Release Date: November, 2005 +First Posted: August 23, 2003 +Last Updated: February 5, 2007 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LILY'S QUEST *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines. + + + + + + + + + + TWICE TOLD TALES + + THE LILY'S QUEST + + By Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + +Two lovers, once upon a time, had planned a little summer-house, in +the form of an antique temple, which it was their purpose to +consecrate to all manner of refined and innocent enjoyments. There +they would hold pleasant intercourse with one another, and the circle +of their familiar friends; there they would give festivals of +delicious fruit; there they would hear lightsome music, intermingled +with the strains of pathos which make joy more sweet; there they would +read poetry and fiction, and permit their own minds to flit away in +daydreams and romance; there, in short,--for why should we shape out +the vague sunshine of their hopes?--there all pure delights were to +cluster like roses among the pillars of the edifice, and blossom ever +new and spontaneously. So, one breezy and cloudless afternoon, Adam +Forrester and Lilias Fay set out upon a ramble over the wide estate +which they were to possess together, seeking a proper site for their +Temple of Happiness. They were themselves a fair and happy spectacle, +fit priest and priestess for such a shrine; although, making poetry of +the pretty name of Lilias, Adam Forrester was wont to call her LILY, +because her form was as fragile, and her cheek almost as pale. + +As they passed, hand in hand, down the avenue of drooping elms, that +led from the portal of Lilies Fay's paternal mansion, they seemed to +glance like winged creatures through the strips of sunshine, and to +scatter brightness where the deep shadows fell. But, setting forth at +the same time with this youthful pair, there was a dismal figure, +wrapped in a black velvet cloak that might have been made of a coffin +pall, and with a sombre hat, such as mourners wear, drooping its broad +brim over his heavy brows. Glancing behind them, the lovers well knew +who it was that followed, but wished from their hearts that he had +been elsewhere, as being a companion so strangely unsuited to their +joyous errand. It was a near relative of Lilies Fay, an old man by +the name of Walter Gascoigne, who had long labored under the burden of +a melancholy spirit, which was sometimes maddened into absolute +insanity, and always had a tinge of it. What a contrast between the +young pilgrims of bliss and their unbidden associate! They looked as +if moulded of Heaven's sunshine, and he of earth's gloomiest shade; +they flitted along like Hope and Joy, roaming hand in hand through +life; while his darksome figure stalked behind, a type of all the +woeful influences which life could fling upon them. But the three had +not gone far, when they reached a spot that pleased the gentle Lily, +and she paused. + +"What sweeter place shall we find than this?" said she. "Why should +we seek farther for the site of our Temple?" + +It was indeed a delightful spot of earth, though undistinguished by +any very prominent beauties, being merely a nook in the shelter of a +hill, with the prospect of a distant lake in one direction, and of a +church-spire in another. There were vistas and pathways leading +onward and onward into the green woodlands, and vanishing away in the +glimmering shade. The Temple, if erected here, would look towards the +west: so that the lovers could shape all sorts of magnificent dreams +out of the purple, violet, and gold of the sunset sky; and few of +their anticipated pleasures were dearer than this sport of fantasy. + +"Yes," said Adam Forrester, "we might seek all day, and find no +lovelier spot. We will build our Temple here." + +But their sad old companion, who had taken his stand on the very site +which they proposed to cover with a marble floor, shook his head and +frowned; and the young man and the Lily deemed it almost enough to +blight the spot, and desecrate it for their airy Temple, that his +dismal figure had thrown its shadow there. He pointed to some +scattered stones, the remnants of a former structure, and to flowers +such as young girls delight to nurse in their gardens, but which had +now relapsed into the wild simplicity of nature. + +"Not here!" cried old Walter Gascoigne. "Here, long ago, other +mortals built their Temple of Happiness. Seek another site for +yours!" + +"What!" exclaimed Lilias Fay. "Have any ever planned such a Temple, +save ourselves?" + +"Poor child!" said her gloomy kinsman. "In one shape or other, every +mortal has dreamed your dream." + +Then he told the lovers, how--not, indeed, an antique Temple--but a +dwelling had once stood there, and that a dark-clad guest had dwelt +among its inmates, sitting forever at the fireside, and poisoning all +their household mirth. Under this type, Adam Forrester and Lilias saw +that the old man spake of Sorrow. He told of nothing that might not +be recorded in the history of almost every household; and yet his +hearers felt as if no sunshine ought to fall upon a spot where human +grief had left so deep a stain; or, at least, that no joyous Temple +should be built there. + +"This is very sad," said the Lily; sighing. + +"Well, there are lovelier spots than this," said Adam Forrester, +soothingly,--"spots which sorrow has not blighted." + +So they hastened away, and the melancholy Gascoigne followed them, +looking as if he had gathered up all the gloom of the deserted spot, +and was hearing it as a burden of inestimable treasure. But still +they rambled on, and soon found themselves in a rocky dell, through +the midst of which ran a streamlet, with ripple, and foam, and a +continual voice of inarticulate joy. It was a wild retreat, walled on +either side with gray precipices, which would have frowned somewhat +too sternly, had not a profusion of green shrubbery rooted itself into +their crevices, and wreathed gladsome foliage around their solemn +brows. But the chief joy of the dell was in the little stream, which +seemed like the presence of a blissful child, with nothing earthly to +do save to babble merrily and disport itself, and make every living +soul its playfellow, and throw the sunny gleams of its spirit upon +all. + +"Here, here is the spot!" cried the two lovers with one voice, as they +reached a level space on the brink of a small cascade. "This glen was +made on purpose for our Temple!" + +"And the glad song of the brook will be always in our ears," said +Lilias Fay. + +"And its long melody shall sing the bliss of our lifetime," said Adam +Forrester. + +"Ye must build no Temple here!" murmured their dismal companion. + +And there again was the old lunatic, standing just on the spot where +they meant to rear their lightsome dome, and looking like the embodied +symbol of some great woe, that, in forgotten days, had happened there. +And, alas! there had been woe, nor that alone. A young man, more than +a hundred years before, had lured hither a girl that loved him, and on +this spot had murdered her, and washed his bloody hands in the stream +which sung so merrily. And ever since, the victim's death-shrieks were +often heard to echo between the cliffs. + +"And see!" cried old Gascoigne, "is the stream yet pure from the stain +of the murderer's hands?" + +"Methinks it has a tinge of blood," faintly answered the Lily; and +being as slight as the gossamer, she trembled and clung to her lover's +arm, whispering, "let us flee from this dreadful vale!" + +"Come, then," said Adam Forrester, as cheerily as he could; "we shall +soon find a happier spot." + +They set forth again, young Pilgrims on that quest which millions--which +every child of Earth--has tried in turn. And were the Lily and +her lover to be more fortunate than all those millions? For a long +time, it seemed not so. The dismal shape of the old lunatic still +glided behind them; and for every spot that looked lovely in their +eyes, he had some legend of human wrong or suffering, so miserably +sad, that his auditors could never afterwards connect the idea of joy +with the place where it had happened. Here, a heart-broken woman, +kneeling to her child, had been spurned from his feet; here, a +desolate old creature had prayed to the Evil One, and had received a +fiendish malignity of soul, in answer to her prayer; here, a new-born +infant, sweet blossom of life, had been found dead, with the impress +of its mother's fingers round its throat; and here, under a shattered +oak, two lovers had been stricken by lightning, and fell blackened +corpses in each other's arms. The dreary Gascoigne had a gift to know +whatever evil and lamentable thing had stained the bosom of Mother +Earth; and when his funereal voice had told the tale, it appeared like +a prophecy of future woe, as well as a tradition of the past. And +now, by their sad demeanor, you would have fancied that the pilgrim +lovers were seeking, not a temple of earthly joy, but a tomb for +themselves and their posterity. + +"Where in this world," exclaimed Adam Forrester, despondingly, "shall +we build our Temple of Happiness?" + +"Where in this world, indeed!" repeated Lilias Fay; and being faint +and weary, the more so by the heaviness of her heart, the Lily drooped +her head and sat down on the summit of a knoll, repeating, "Where in +this world shall we build our Temple?" + +"Ah! have you already asked yourselves that question?" said their +companion, his shaded features growing even gloomier with the smile +that dwelt on them; "yet there is a place, even in this world, where +ye may build it." + +While the old man spoke, Adam Forrester and Lilias had carelessly +thrown their eyes around, and perceived that the spot where they had +chanced to pause possessed a quiet charm, which was well enough +adapted to their present mood of mind. It was a small rise of ground, +with a certain regularity of shape, that had perhaps been bestowed by +art; and a group of trees, which almost surrounded it, threw their +pensive shadows across and far beyond, although some softened glory of +the sunshine found its way there. The ancestral mansion, wherein the +lovers would dwell together, appeared on one side, and the ivied +church, where they were to worship, on another. Happening to cast +their eyes on the ground, they smiled, yet with a sense of wonder, to +see that a pale lily was growing at their feet. + +"We will build our Temple here," said they, simultaneously, and with +an indescribable conviction, that they had at last found the very +spot. + +Yet, while they uttered this exclamation, the young man and the Lily +turned an apprehensive glance at their dreary associate, deeming it +hardly possible, that some tale of earthly affliction should not make +those precincts loathsome, as in every former case. The old man stood +just behind them, so as to form the chief figure in the group, with +his sable cloak muffling the lower part of his visage, and his sombre +list overshadowing his brows. But he gave no word of dissent from +their purpose; and an inscrutable smile was accepted by the lovers as +a token that here had been no footprint of guilt or sorrow, to +desecrate the site of their Temple of Happiness. + +In a little time longer, while summer was still in its prime, the +fairy structure of the Temple arose on the summit of the knoll, amid +the solemn shadows of the trees, yet often gladdened with bright +sunshine. It was built of white marble, with slender and graceful +pillars, supporting a vaulted dome; and beneath the centre of this +dome, upon a pedestal, was a slab of dark-veined marble, on which +books and music might be strewn. But there was a fantasy among the +people of the neighborhood, that the edifice was planned after an +ancient mausoleum, and was intended for a tomb, and that the central +slab of dark-veined marble was to be inscribed with the names of +buried ones. They doubted, too, whether the form of Lilias Fay could +appertain to a creature of this earth, being so very delicate, and +growing every day more fragile, so that she looked as if the summer +breeze should snatch her up, and waft her heavenward. But still she +watched the daily growth of the Temple; and so did old Walter +Gascoigne, who now made that spot his continual haunt, leaning whole +hours together on his staff, and giving as deep attention to the work +as though it had been indeed a tomb. In due time it was finished, and +a day appointed for a simple rite of dedication. + +On the preceding evening, after Adam Forrester had taken leave of his +mistress, he looked back towards the portal of her dwelling, and felt +a strange thrill of fear; for he imagined that, as the setting +sunbeams faded from her figure, she was exhaling away, and that +something of her ethereal substance was withdrawn, with each lessening +gleam of light. With his farewell glance, a shadow had fallen over +the portal, and Lilias was invisible. His foreboding spirit deemed it +an omen at the time; and so it proved; for the sweet earthly form, by +which the Lily bad been manifested to the world, was found lifeless, +the next morning, in the Temple, with her head resting on her arms, +which were folded upon the slab of dark-veined marble. The chill +winds of the earth had long since breathed a blight into this +beautiful flower, so that a loving hand had now transplanted it, to +blossom brightly in the garden of Paradise. + +But, alas for the Temple of Happiness! In his unutterable grief, Adam +Forrester had no purpose more at heart than to convert this Temple of +many delightful hopes into a tomb, and bury his dead mistress there. +And to! a wonder! Digging a grave beneath the Temple's marble floor, +the sexton found no virgin earth, such as was meet to receive the +maiden's dust, but an ancient sepulchre, in which were treasured up +the bones of generations that had died long ago. Among those forgotten +ancestors was the Lily to be laid. And when the funeral procession +brought Lilias thither in her coffin, they beheld old Walter Gascoigne +standing beneath the dome of the Temple, with his cloak of pall, and +face of darkest gloom; and wherever that figure might take its stand, +the spot would seem a sepulchre. He watched the mourners as they +lowered the coffin down. + +"And so," said he to Adam Forrester, with the strange smile in which +his insanity was wont to gleam forth, "you have found no better +foundation for your happiness than on a grave!" + +But as the Shadow of Affliction spoke, a vision of Hope and Joy had +its birth in Adam's mind, even from the old man's taunting words; for +then he knew what was betokened by the parable in which the Lily and +himself had acted; and the mystery of Life and Death was opened to +him. + +"Joy! joy!" he cried, throwing his arms towards Heaven, "on a grave +be the site of our Temple; and now our happiness is for Eternity!" + +With those words, a ray of sunshine broke through the dismal sky, and +glimmered down into the sepulchre; while, at the same moment, the +shape of old Walter Gascoigne stalked drearily away, because his +gloom, symbolic of all earthly sorrow, might no longer abide there, +now that the darkest riddle of humanity was read. + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lily's Quest (From "Twice Told +Tales"), by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LILY'S QUEST *** + +***** This file should be named 9217.txt or 9217.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/1/9217/ + +Produced by David Widger. 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There +they would hold pleasant intercourse with one another, and the circle +of their familiar friends; there they would give festivals of +delicious fruit; there they would hear lightsome music, intermingled +with the strains of pathos which make joy more sweet; there they would +read poetry and fiction, and permit their own minds to flit away in +daydreams and romance; there, in short,--for why should we shape out +the vague sunshine of their hopes?--there all pure delights were to +cluster like roses among the pillars of the edifice, and blossom ever +new and spontaneously. So, one breezy and cloudless afternoon, Adam +Forrester and Lilias Fay set out upon a ramble over the wide estate +which they were to possess together, seeking a proper site for their +Temple of Happiness. They were themselves a fair and happy spectacle, +fit priest and priestess for such a shrine; although, making poetry of +the pretty name of Lilias, Adam Forrester was wont to call her LILY, +because her form was as fragile, and her cheek almost as pale. + +As they passed, hand in hand, down the avenue of drooping elms, that +led from the portal of Lilies Fay's paternal mansion, they seemed to +glance like winged creatures through the strips of sunshine, and to +scatter brightness where the deep shadows fell. But, setting forth at +the same time with this youthful pair, there was a dismal figure, +wrapped in a black velvet cloak that might have been made of a coffin +pall, and with a sombre hat, such as mourners wear, drooping its broad +brim over his heavy brows. Glancing behind them, the lovers well knew +who it was that followed, but wished from their hearts that he had +been elsewhere, as being a companion so strangely unsuited to their +joyous errand. It was a near relative of Lilies Fay, an old man by +the name of Walter Gascoigne, who had long labored under the burden of +a melancholy spirit, which was sometimes maddened into absolute +insanity, and always had a tinge of it. What a contrast between the +young pilgrims of bliss and their unbidden associate! They looked as +if moulded of Heaven's sunshine, and he of earth's gloomiest shade; +they flitted along like Hope and Joy, roaming hand in hand through +life; while his darksome figure stalked behind, a type of all the +woeful influences which life could fling upon them. But the three had +not gone far, when they reached a spot that pleased the gentle Lily, +and she paused. + +"What sweeter place shall we find than this?" said she. "Why should +we seek farther for the site of our Temple?" + +It was indeed a delightful spot of earth, though undistinguished by +any very prominent beauties, being merely a nook in the shelter of a +hill, with the prospect of a distant lake in one direction, and of a +church-spire in another. There were vistas and pathways leading +onward and onward into the green woodlands, and vanishing away in the +glimmering shade. The Temple, if erected here, would look towards the +west: so that the lovers could shape all sorts of magnificent dreams +out of the purple, violet, and gold of the sunset sky; and few of +their anticipated pleasures were dearer than this sport of fantasy. + +"Yes," said Adam Forrester, "we might seek all day, and find no +lovelier spot. We will build our Temple here." + +But their sad old companion, who had taken his stand on the very site +which they proposed to cover with a marble floor, shook his head and +frowned; and the young man and the Lily deemed it almost enough to +blight the spot, and desecrate it for their airy Temple, that his +dismal figure had thrown its shadow there. He pointed to some +scattered stones, the remnants of a former structure, and to flowers +such as young girls delight to nurse in their gardens, but which had +now relapsed into the wild simplicity of nature. + +"Not here!" cried old Walter Gascoigne. "Here, long ago, other +mortals built their Temple of Happiness. Seek another site for +yours!" + +"What!" exclaimed Lilias Fay. "Have any ever planned such a Temple, +save ourselves?" + +"Poor child!" said her gloomy kinsman. "In one shape or other, every +mortal has dreamed your dream." + +Then he told the lovers, how--not, indeed, an antique Temple--but a +dwelling had once stood there, and that a dark-clad guest had dwelt +among its inmates, sitting forever at the fireside, and poisoning all +their household mirth. Under this type, Adam Forrester and Lilias saw +that the old man spake of Sorrow. He told of nothing that might not +be recorded in the history of almost every household; and yet his +hearers felt as if no sunshine ought to fall upon a spot where human +grief had left so deep a stain; or, at least, that no joyous Temple +should be built there. + +"This is very sad," said the Lily; sighing. + +"Well, there are lovelier spots than this," said Adam Forrester, +soothingly,--"spots which sorrow has not blighted." + +So they hastened away, and the melancholy Gascoigne followed them, +looking as if he had gathered up all the gloom of the deserted spot, +and was hearing it as a burden of inestimable treasure. But still +they rambled on, and soon found themselves in a rocky dell, through +the midst of which ran a streamlet, with ripple, and foam, and a +continual voice of inarticulate joy. It was a wild retreat, walled on +either side with gray precipices, which would have frowned somewhat +too sternly, had not a profusion of green shrubbery rooted itself into +their crevices, and wreathed gladsome foliage around their solemn +brows. But the chief joy of the dell was in the little stream, which +seemed like the presence of a blissful child, with nothing earthly to +do save to babble merrily and disport itself, and make every living +soul its playfellow, and throw the sunny gleams of its spirit upon +all. + +"Here, here is the spot!" cried the two lovers with one voice, as they +reached a level space on the brink of a small cascade. "This glen was +made on purpose for our Temple!" + +"And the glad song of the brook will be always in our ears," said +Lilias Fay. + +"And its long melody shall sing the bliss of our lifetime," said Adam +Forrester. + +"Ye must build no Temple here!" murmured their dismal companion. + +And there again was the old lunatic, standing just on the spot where +they meant to rear their lightsome dome, and looking like the embodied +symbol of some great woe, that, in forgotten days, had happened there. +And, alas! there had been woe, nor that alone. A young man, more than +a hundred years before, had lured hither a girl that loved him, and on +this spot had murdered her, and washed his bloody hands in the stream +which sung so merrily. And ever since, the victim's death-shrieks were +often heard to echo between the cliffs. + +"And see!" cried old Gascoigne, "is the stream yet pure from the stain +of the murderer's hands?" + +"Methinks it has a tinge of blood," faintly answered the Lily; and +being as slight as the gossamer, she trembled and clung to her lover's +arm, whispering, "let us flee from this dreadful vale!" + +"Come, then," said Adam Forrester, as cheerily as he could; "we shall +soon find a happier spot." + +They set forth again, young Pilgrims on that quest which millions-- +which every child of Earth--has tried in turn. And were the Lily and +her lover to be more fortunate than all those millions? For a long +time, it seemed not so. The dismal shape of the old lunatic still +glided behind them; and for every spot that looked lovely in their +eyes, he had some legend of human wrong or suffering, so miserably +sad, that his auditors could never afterwards connect the idea of joy +with the place where it had happened. Here, a heart-broken woman, +kneeling to her child, had been spurned from his feet; here, a +desolate old creature had prayed to the Evil One, and had received a +fiendish malignity of soul, in answer to her prayer; here, a new-born +infant, sweet blossom of life, had been found dead, with the impress +of its mother's fingers round its throat; and here, under a shattered +oak, two lovers had been stricken by lightning, and fell blackened +corpses in each other's arms. The dreary Gascoigne had a gift to know +whatever evil and lamentable thing had stained the bosom of Mother +Earth; and when his funereal voice had told the tale, it appeared like +a prophecy of future woe, as well as a tradition of the past. And +now, by their sad demeanor, you would have fancied that the pilgrim +lovers were seeking, not a temple of earthly joy, but a tomb for +themselves and their posterity. + +"Where in this world," exclaimed Adam Forrester, despondingly, "shall +we build our Temple of Happiness?" + +"Where in this world, indeed!" repeated Lilias Fay; and being faint +and weary, the more so by the heaviness of her heart, the Lily drooped +her head and sat down on the summit of a knoll, repeating, "Where in +this world shall we build our Temple?" + +"Ah! have you already asked yourselves that question?" said their +companion, his shaded features growing even gloomier with the smile +that dwelt on them; "yet there is a place, even in this world, where +ye may build it." + +While the old man spoke, Adam Forrester and Lilias had carelessly +thrown their eyes around, and perceived that the spot where they had +chanced to pause possessed a quiet charm, which was well enough +adapted to their present mood of mind. It was a small rise of ground, +with a certain regularity of shape, that had perhaps been bestowed by +art; and a group of trees, which almost surrounded it, threw their +pensive shadows across and far beyond, although some softened glory of +the sunshine found its way there. The ancestral mansion, wherein the +lovers would dwell together, appeared on one side, and the ivied +church, where they were to worship, on another. Happening to cast +their eyes on the ground, they smiled, yet with a sense of wonder, to +see that a pale lily was growing at their feet. + +"We will build our Temple here," said they, simultaneously, and with +an indescribable conviction, that they had at last found the very +spot. + +Yet, while they uttered this exclamation, the young man and the Lily +turned an apprehensive glance at their dreary associate, deeming it +hardly possible, that some tale of earthly affliction should not make +those precincts loathsome, as in every former case. The old man stood +just behind them, so as to form the chief figure in the group, with +his sable cloak muffling the lower part of his visage, and his sombre +list overshadowing his brows. But he gave no word of dissent from +their purpose; and an inscrutable smile was accepted by the lovers as +a token that here had been no footprint of guilt or sorrow, to +desecrate the site of their Temple of Happiness. + +In a little time longer, while summer was still in its prime, the +fairy structure of the Temple arose on the summit of the knoll, amid +the solemn shadows of the trees, yet often gladdened with bright +sunshine. It was built of white marble, with slender and graceful +pillars, supporting a vaulted dome; and beneath the centre of this +dome, upon a pedestal, was a slab of dark-veined marble, on which +books and music might be strewn. But there was a fantasy among the +people of the neighborhood, that the edifice was planned after an +ancient mausoleum, and was intended for a tomb, and that the central +slab of dark-veined marble was to be inscribed with the names of +buried ones. They doubted, too, whether the form of Lilias Fay could +appertain to a creature of this earth, being so very delicate, and +growing every day more fragile, so that she looked as if the summer +breeze should snatch her up, and waft her heavenward. But still she +watched the daily growth of the Temple; and so did old Walter +Gascoigne, who now made that spot his continual haunt, leaning whole +hours together on his staff, and giving as deep attention to the work +as though it had been indeed a tomb. In due time it was finished, and +a day appointed for a simple rite of dedication. + +On the preceding evening, after Adam Forrester had taken leave of his +mistress, he looked back towards the portal of her dwelling, and felt +a strange thrill of fear; for he imagined that, as the setting +sunbeams faded from her figure, she was exhaling away, and that +something of her ethereal substance was withdrawn, with each lessening +gleam of light. With his farewell glance, a shadow had fallen over +the portal, and Lilias was invisible. His foreboding spirit deemed it +an omen at the time; and so it proved; for the sweet earthly form, by +which the Lily bad been manifested to the world, was found lifeless, +the next morning, in the Temple, with her head resting on her arms, +which were folded upon the slab of dark-veined marble. The chill +winds of the earth had long since breathed a blight into this +beautiful flower, so that a loving hand had now transplanted it, to +blossom brightly in the garden of Paradise. + +But, alas for the Temple of Happiness! In his unutterable grief, Adam +Forrester had no purpose more at heart than to convert this Temple of +many delightful hopes into a tomb, and bury his dead mistress there. +And to! a wonder! Digging a grave beneath the Temple's marble floor, +the sexton found no virgin earth, such as was meet to receive the +maiden's dust, but an ancient sepulchre, in which were treasured up +the bones of generations that had died long ago. Among those forgotten +ancestors was the Lily to be laid. And when the funeral procession +brought Lilias thither in her coffin, they beheld old Walter Gascoigne +standing beneath the dome of the Temple, with his cloak of pall, and +face of darkest gloom; and wherever that figure might take its stand, +the spot would seem a sepulchre. He watched the mourners as they +lowered the coffin down. + +"And so," said he to Adam Forrester, with the strange smile in which +his insanity was wont to gleam forth, "you have found no better +foundation for your happiness than on a grave!" + +But as the Shadow of Affliction spoke, a vision of Hope and Joy had +its birth in Adam's mind, even from the old man's taunting words; for +then he knew what was betokened by the parable in which the Lily and +himself had acted; and the mystery of Life and Death was opened to +him. + +"Joy! joy!" he cried, throwing his arms towards Heaven, "on a grave +be the site of our Temple; and now our happiness is for Eternity!" + +With those words, a ray of sunshine broke through the dismal sky, and +glimmered down into the sepulchre; while, at the same moment, the +shape of old Walter Gascoigne stalked drearily away, because his +gloom, symbolic of all earthly sorrow, might no longer abide there, +now that the darkest riddle of humanity was read. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE LILY'S QUEST *** +By Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** This file should be named haw4410.txt or haw4410.zip *** + +Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, haw4411.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, haw4410a.txt + +This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net] + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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