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+Buds and Bird Voices
+
+by Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+
+
+Balmy Spring—weeks later than we expected and months later than we
+longed for her—comes at last to revive the moss on the roof and walls
+of our old mansion. She peeps brightly into my study-window, inviting
+me to throw it open and create a summer atmosphere by the intermixture
+of her genial breath with the black and cheerless comfort of the stove.
+As the casement ascends, forth into infinite space fly the innumerable
+forms of thought or fancy that have kept me company in the retirement
+of this little chamber during the sluggish lapse of wintry weather;
+visions, gay, grotesque, and sad; pictures of real life, tinted with
+nature’s homely gray and russet; scenes in dreamland, bedizened with
+rainbow hues which faded before they were well laid on,—all these may
+vanish now, and leave me to mould a fresh existence out of sunshine,
+Brooding Meditation may flap her dusky wings and take her owl-like
+Right, blinking amid the cheerfulness of noontide. Such companions
+befit the season of frosted window-panes and crackling fires, when the
+blast howls through the black-ash trees of our avenue and the drifting
+snow-storm chokes up the wood-paths and fills the highway from stone
+wall to stone wall. In the spring and summer time all sombre thoughts
+should follow the winter northward with the sombre and thoughtful
+crows. The old paradisiacal economy of life is again in force; we live,
+not to think or to labor, but for the simple end of being happy.
+Nothing for the present hour is worthy of man’s infinite capacity save
+to imbibe the warm smile of heaven and sympathize with the reviving
+earth.
+
+The present Spring comes onward with fleeter footsteps, because Winter
+lingered so unconscionably long that with her best diligence she can
+hardly retrieve half the allotted period of her reign. It is but a
+fortnight since I stood on the brink of our swollen river and beheld
+the accumulated ice of four frozen months go down the stream. Except in
+streaks here and there upon the hillsides, the whole visible universe
+was then covered with deep snow, the nethermost layer of which had been
+deposited by an early December storm. It was a sight to make the
+beholder torpid, in the impossibility of imagining how this vast white
+napkin was to be removed from the face of the corpse-like world in less
+time than had been required to spread it there. But who can estimate
+the power of gentle influences, whether amid material desolation or the
+moral winter of man’s heart? There have been no tempestuous rains, even
+no sultry days, but a constant breath of southern winds, with now a day
+of kindly sunshine, and now a no less kindly mist or a soft descent of
+showers, in which a smile and a blessing seemed to have been steeped.
+The snow has vanished as if by magic; whatever heaps may be hidden in
+the woods and deep gorges of the hills, only two solitary specks remain
+in the landscape; and those I shall almost regret to miss when
+to-morrow I look for them in vain. Never before, methinks, has spring
+pressed so closely on the footsteps of retreating winter. Along the
+roadside the green blades of grass have sprouted on the very edge of
+the snow-drifts. The pastures and mowing-fields have not vet assumed a
+general aspect of verdure; but neither have they the cheerless-brown
+tint which they wear in latter autumn when vegetation has entirely
+ceased; there is now a faint shadow of life, gradually brightening into
+the warm reality. Some tracts in a happy exposure,—as, for instance,
+yonder southwestern slope of an orchard, in front of that old red
+farm-house beyond the river,—such patches of land already wear a
+beautiful and tender green, to which no future luxuriance can add a
+charm. It looks unreal; a prophecy, a hope, a transitory effect of
+sonic peculiar light, which will vanish with the slightest motion of
+the eye. But beauty is never a delusion; not these verdant tracts, but
+the dark and barren landscape all around them, is a shadow and a dream.
+Each moment wins seine portion of the earth from death to life; a
+sudden gleam of verdure brightens along the sunny slope of a bank which
+an instant ago was brown and bare. You look again, and behold an
+apparition of green grass!
+
+The trees in our orchard and elsewhere are as yet naked, but already
+appear full of life and vegetable blood. It seems as if by one magic
+touch they might instantaneously burst into full foliage, and that the
+wind which now sighs through their naked branches might make sudden
+music amid innumerable leaves. The mossgrown willow-tree which for
+forty years past has overshadowed these western windows will be among
+the first to put on its green attire. There are some objections to the
+willow; it is not a dry and cleanly tree, and impresses the beholder
+with an association of sliminess. No trees, I think, are perfectly
+agreeable as companions unless they have glossy leaves, dry bark, and a
+firm and hard texture of trunk and branches. But the willow is almost
+the earliest to gladden us with the promise and reality of beauty in
+its graceful and delicate foliage, and the last to scatter its yellow
+yet scarcely withered leaves upon the ground. All through the winter,
+too, its yellow twigs give it a sunny aspect, which is not without a
+cheering influence even in the grayest and gloomiest day. Beneath a
+clouded sky it faithfully remembers the sunshine. Our old house would
+lose a charm were the willow to be cut down, with its golden crown over
+the snow-covered roof and its heap of summer verdure.
+
+The lilac-shrubs under my study-windows are likewise almost in leaf: in
+two or three days more I may put forth my hand and pluck the topmost
+bough in its freshest green. These lilacs are very aged, and have lost
+the luxuriant foliage of their prime. The heart, or the judgment, or
+the moral sense, or the taste is dissatisfied with their present
+aspect. Old age is not venerable when it embodies itself in lilacs,
+rose-bushes, or any other ornamental shrub; it seems as if such plants,
+as they grow only for beauty, ought to flourish always in immortal
+youth, or, at least, to die before their sad decrepitude. Trees of
+beauty are trees of paradise, and therefore not subject to decay by
+their original nature, though they have lost that precious birthright
+by being transplanted to an earthly soil. There is a kind of ludicrous
+unfitness in the idea of a time-stricken and grandfatherly lilac-bush.
+The analogy holds good in human life. Persons who can only be graceful
+and ornamental—who can give the world nothing but flowers—should die
+young, and never be seen with gray hair and wrinkles, any more than the
+flower-shrubs with mossy bark and blighted foliage, like the lilacs
+under my window. Not that beauty is worthy of less than immortality;
+no, the beautiful should live forever,—and thence, perhaps, the sense
+of impropriety when we see it triumphed over by time. Apple-trees, on
+the other hand, grow old without reproach. Let them live as long as
+they may, and contort themselves into whatever perversity of shape they
+please, and deck their withered limbs with a springtime gaudiness of
+pink blossoms; still they are respectable, even if they afford us only
+an apple or two in a season. Those few apples—or, at all events, the
+remembrance of apples in bygone years—are the atonement which
+utilitarianism inexorably demands for the privilege of lengthened life.
+Human flower-shrubs, if they will grow old on earth, should, besides
+their lovely blossoms, bear some kind of fruit that will satisfy
+earthly appetites, else neither man nor the decorum of nature will deem
+it fit that the moss should gather on them.
+
+One of the first things that strikes the attention when the white sheet
+of winter is withdrawn is the neglect and disarray that lay hidden
+beneath it. Nature is not cleanly according to our prejudices. The
+beauty of preceding years, now transformed to brown and blighted
+deformity, obstructs the brightening loveliness of the present hour.
+Our avenue is strewn with the whole crop of autumn’s withered leaves.
+There are quantities of decayed branches which one tempest after
+another has flung down, black and rotten, and one or two with the ruin
+of a bird’s-nest clinging to them. In the garden are the dried
+bean-vines, the brown stalks of the asparagus-bed, and melancholy old
+cabbages which were frozen into the soil before their unthrifty
+cultivator could find time to gather them. How invariably, throughout
+all the forms of life, do we find these intermingled memorials of
+death! On the soil of thought and in the garden of the heart, as well
+as in the sensual world, he withered leaves,—the ideas and feelings
+that we have done with. There is no wind strong enough to sweep them
+away; infinite space will not garner then from our sight. What mean
+they? Why may we not be permitted to live and enjoy, as if this were
+the first life and our own the primal enjoyment, instead of treading
+always on these dry hones and mouldering relics, from the aged
+accumulation of which springs all that now appears so young and new?
+Sweet must have been the springtime of Eden, when no earlier year had
+strewn its decay upon the virgin turf and no former experience had
+ripened into summer and faded into autumn in the hearts of its
+inhabitants! That was a world worth living in. O then murmurer, it is
+out of the very wantonness of such a life that then feignest these idle
+lamentations. There is no decay. Each human soul is the first-created
+inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered mansion,
+and tread in the worn footprints of the past, and have a gray
+clergyman’s ghost for our daily and nightly inmate; yet all these
+outward circumstances are made less than visionary by the renewing
+power of the spirit. Should the spirit ever lose this power,—should the
+withered leaves, and the rotten branches, and the moss-covered house,
+and the ghost of the gray past ever become its realities, and the
+verdure and the freshness merely its faint dream,—then let it pray to
+be released from earth. It will need the air of heaven to revive its
+pristine energies.
+
+What an unlooked-for flight was this from our shadowy avenue of
+black-ash and balm of Gilead trees into the infinite! Now we have our
+feet again upon the turf. Nowhere does the grass spring up so
+industriously as in this homely yard, along the base of the stone wall,
+and in the sheltered nooks of the buildings, and especially around the
+southern doorstep,—a locality which seems particularly favorable to its
+growth, for it is already tall enough to bend over and wave in the
+wind. I observe that several weeds—and most frequently a plant that
+stains the fingers with its yellow juice—have survived and retained
+their freshness and sap throughout the winter. One knows not how they
+have deserved such an exception from the common lot of their race. They
+are now the patriarchs of the departed year, and may preach mortality
+to the present generation of flowers and weeds.
+
+Among the delights of spring, how is it possible to forget the birds?
+Even the crows were welcome as the sable harbingers of a brighter and
+livelier race. They visited us before the snow was off, but seem mostly
+to have betaken themselves to remote depths of the woods, which they
+haunt all summer long. Many a time shall I disturb them there, and feel
+as if I had intruded among a company of silent worshippers, as they sit
+in Sabbath stillness among the tree-tops. Their voices, when they
+speak, are in admirable accordance with the tranquil solitude of a
+summer afternoon; and resounding so far above the head, their loud
+clamor increases the religious quiet of the scene instead of breaking
+it. A crow, however, has no real pretensions to religion, in spite of
+his gravity of mien and black attire; he is certainly a thief, and
+probably an infidel. The gulls are far more respectable, in a moral
+point of view. These denizens of seabeaten rocks and haunters of the
+lonely beach come up our inland river at this season, and soar high
+overhead, flapping their broad wings in the upper sunshine. They are
+among the most picturesque of birds, because they so float and rest
+upon the air as to become almost stationary parts of the landscape. The
+imagination has time to grow acquainted with them; they have not
+flitted away in a moment. You go up among the clouds and greet these
+lofty-flighted gulls, and repose confidently with them upon the
+sustaining atmosphere. Duck’s have their haunts along the solitary
+places of the river, and alight in flocks upon the broad bosom of the
+overflowed meadows. Their flight is too rapid and determined for the
+eye to catch enjoyment from it, although it never fails to stir up the
+heart with the sportsman’s ineradicable instinct. They have now gone
+farther northward, but will visit us again in autumn.
+
+The smaller birds,—the little songsters of the woods, and those that
+haunt man’s dwellings and claim human friendship by building their
+nests under the sheltering eaves or among the orchard trees,—these
+require a touch more delicate and a gentler heart than mine to do them
+justice. Their outburst of melody is like a brook let loose from wintry
+chains. We need not deem it a too high and solemn word to call it a
+hymn of praise to the Creator; since Nature, who pictures the reviving
+year in so many sights of beauty, has expressed the sentiment of
+renewed life in no other sound save the notes of these blessed birds.
+Their music, however, just now, seems to be incidental, and not the
+result of a set purpose. They are discussing the economy of life and
+love and the site and architecture of their summer residences, and have
+no time to sit on a twig and pour forth solemn hymns, or overtures,
+operas, symphonies, and waltzes. Anxious questions are asked; grave
+subjects are settled in quick and animated debate; and only by
+occasional accident, as from pure ecstasy, does a rich warble roll its
+tiny waves of golden sound through the atmosphere. Their little bodies
+are as busy as their voices; they are all a constant flutter and
+restlessness. Even when two or three retreat to a tree-top to hold
+council, they wag their tails and heads all the time with the
+irrepressible activity of their nature, which perhaps renders their
+brief span of life in reality as long as the patriarchal age of
+sluggish man. The blackbirds, three species of which consort together,
+are the noisiest of all our feathered citizens. Great companies of
+them—more than the famous “four-and-twenty” whom Mother Goose has
+immortalized—congregate in contiguous treetops and vociferate with all
+the clamor and confusion of a turbulent political meeting. Politics,
+certainly, must be the occasion of such tumultuous debates; but still,
+unlike all other politicians, they instil melody into their individual
+utterances and produce harmony as a general effect. Of all bird voices,
+none are more sweet and cheerful to my ear than those of swallows, in
+the dim, sunstreaked interior of a lofty barn; they address the heart
+with even a closer sympathy than robin-redbreast. But, indeed, all
+these winged people, that dwell in the vicinity of homesteads, seem to
+partake of human nature, and possess the germ, if not the development,
+of immortal souls. We hear them saying their melodious prayers at
+morning’s blush and eventide. A little while ago, in the deep of night,
+there came the lively thrill of a bird’s note from a neighboring
+tree,—a real song, such as greets the purple dawn or mingles with the
+yellow sunshine. What could the little bird mean by pouring it forth at
+midnight? Probably the music gushed out of the midst of a dream in
+which he fancied himself in paradise with his mate, but suddenly awoke
+on a cold leafless bough, with a New England mist penetrating through
+his feathers. That was a sad exchange of imagination for reality.
+
+Insects are among the earliest births of sprung. Multitudes of I know
+not what species appeared long ago on the surface of the snow. Clouds
+of them, almost too minute for sight, hover in a beam of sunshine, and
+vanish, as if annihilated, when they pass into the shade. A mosquito
+has already been heard to sound the small horror of his bugle-horn.
+Wasps infest the sunny windows of the house. A bee entered one of the
+chambers with a prophecy of flowers. Rare butterflies came before the
+snow was off, flaunting in the chill breeze, and looking forlorn and
+all astray, in spite of the magnificence of their dark velvet cloaks,
+with golden borders.
+
+The fields and wood-paths have as yet few charms to entice the
+wanderer. In a walk, the other day, I found no violets, nor anemones,
+nor anything in the likeness of a flower. It was worth while, however,
+to ascend our opposite hill for the sake of gaining a general idea of
+the advance of spring, which I had hitherto been studying in its minute
+developments. The river lay around me in a semicircle, overflowing all
+the meadows which give it its Indian name, and offering a noble breadth
+to sparkle in the sunbeams. Along the hither shore a row of trees stood
+up to their knees in water; and afar off, on the surface of the stream,
+tufts of bushes thrust up their heads, as it were, to breathe. The most
+striking objects were great solitary trees here and there, with a
+mile-wide waste of water all around them. The curtailment of the trunk,
+by its immersion in the river, quite destroys the fair proportions of
+the tree, and thus makes us sensible of a regularity and propriety in
+the usual forms of nature. The flood of the present season—though it
+never amounts to a freshet on our quiet stream—has encroached farther
+upon the land than any previous one for at least a score of years. It
+has overflowed stone fences, and even rendered a portion of the highway
+navigable for boats.
+
+The waters, however, are now gradually subsiding; islands become
+annexed to the mainland; and other islands emerge, like new creations,
+from the watery waste. The scene supplies an admirable image of the
+receding of the Nile, except that there is no deposit of black slime;
+or of Noah’s flood, only that there is a freshness and novelty in these
+recovered portions of the continent which give the impression of a
+world just made rather than of one so polluted that a deluge had been
+requisite to purify it. These upspringing islands are the greenest
+spots in the landscape; the first gleam of sunlight suffices to cover
+them with verdure.
+
+Thank Providence for spring! The earth—and man himself, by sympathy
+with his birthplace would be far other than we find them if life toiled
+wearily onward without this periodical infusion of the primal spirit.
+Will the world ever be so decayed that spring may not renew its
+greenness? Can man be so dismally age stricken that no faintest
+sunshine of his youth may revisit him once a year? It is impossible.
+The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; the good old
+pastor who once dwelt here renewed his prime, regained his boyhood, in
+the genial breezes of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy
+soul if, whether in youth or age, it have outlived its privilege of
+springtime sprightliness! From such a soul the world must hope no
+reformation of its evil, no sympathy with the lofty faith and gallant
+struggles of those who contend in its behalf. Summer works in the
+present, and thinks not of the future; autumn is a rich conservative;
+winter has utterly lost its faith, and clings tremulously to the
+remembrance of what has been; but spring, with its outgushing life, is
+the true type of the movement.
+
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+<h1>Buds and Bird Voices</h1>
+
+<h2 class="no-break">by Nathaniel Hawthorne</h2>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p>
+Balmy Spring&mdash;weeks later than we expected and months later than we longed
+for her&mdash;comes at last to revive the moss on the roof and walls of our old
+mansion. She peeps brightly into my study-window, inviting me to throw it open
+and create a summer atmosphere by the intermixture of her genial breath with
+the black and cheerless comfort of the stove. As the casement ascends, forth
+into infinite space fly the innumerable forms of thought or fancy that have
+kept me company in the retirement of this little chamber during the sluggish
+lapse of wintry weather; visions, gay, grotesque, and sad; pictures of real
+life, tinted with nature’s homely gray and russet; scenes in dreamland,
+bedizened with rainbow hues which faded before they were well laid
+on,&mdash;all these may vanish now, and leave me to mould a fresh existence out
+of sunshine, Brooding Meditation may flap her dusky wings and take her owl-like
+Right, blinking amid the cheerfulness of noontide. Such companions befit the
+season of frosted window-panes and crackling fires, when the blast howls
+through the black-ash trees of our avenue and the drifting snow-storm chokes up
+the wood-paths and fills the highway from stone wall to stone wall. In the
+spring and summer time all sombre thoughts should follow the winter northward
+with the sombre and thoughtful crows. The old paradisiacal economy of life is
+again in force; we live, not to think or to labor, but for the simple end of
+being happy. Nothing for the present hour is worthy of man’s infinite capacity
+save to imbibe the warm smile of heaven and sympathize with the reviving earth.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The present Spring comes onward with fleeter footsteps, because Winter lingered
+so unconscionably long that with her best diligence she can hardly retrieve
+half the allotted period of her reign. It is but a fortnight since I stood on
+the brink of our swollen river and beheld the accumulated ice of four frozen
+months go down the stream. Except in streaks here and there upon the hillsides,
+the whole visible universe was then covered with deep snow, the nethermost
+layer of which had been deposited by an early December storm. It was a sight to
+make the beholder torpid, in the impossibility of imagining how this vast white
+napkin was to be removed from the face of the corpse-like world in less time
+than had been required to spread it there. But who can estimate the power of
+gentle influences, whether amid material desolation or the moral winter of
+man’s heart? There have been no tempestuous rains, even no sultry days, but a
+constant breath of southern winds, with now a day of kindly sunshine, and now a
+no less kindly mist or a soft descent of showers, in which a smile and a
+blessing seemed to have been steeped. The snow has vanished as if by magic;
+whatever heaps may be hidden in the woods and deep gorges of the hills, only
+two solitary specks remain in the landscape; and those I shall almost regret to
+miss when to-morrow I look for them in vain. Never before, methinks, has spring
+pressed so closely on the footsteps of retreating winter. Along the roadside
+the green blades of grass have sprouted on the very edge of the snow-drifts.
+The pastures and mowing-fields have not vet assumed a general aspect of
+verdure; but neither have they the cheerless-brown tint which they wear in
+latter autumn when vegetation has entirely ceased; there is now a faint shadow
+of life, gradually brightening into the warm reality. Some tracts in a happy
+exposure,&mdash;as, for instance, yonder southwestern slope of an orchard, in
+front of that old red farm-house beyond the river,&mdash;such patches of land
+already wear a beautiful and tender green, to which no future luxuriance can
+add a charm. It looks unreal; a prophecy, a hope, a transitory effect of sonic
+peculiar light, which will vanish with the slightest motion of the eye. But
+beauty is never a delusion; not these verdant tracts, but the dark and barren
+landscape all around them, is a shadow and a dream. Each moment wins seine
+portion of the earth from death to life; a sudden gleam of verdure brightens
+along the sunny slope of a bank which an instant ago was brown and bare. You
+look again, and behold an apparition of green grass!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The trees in our orchard and elsewhere are as yet naked, but already appear
+full of life and vegetable blood. It seems as if by one magic touch they might
+instantaneously burst into full foliage, and that the wind which now sighs
+through their naked branches might make sudden music amid innumerable leaves.
+The mossgrown willow-tree which for forty years past has overshadowed these
+western windows will be among the first to put on its green attire. There are
+some objections to the willow; it is not a dry and cleanly tree, and impresses
+the beholder with an association of sliminess. No trees, I think, are perfectly
+agreeable as companions unless they have glossy leaves, dry bark, and a firm
+and hard texture of trunk and branches. But the willow is almost the earliest
+to gladden us with the promise and reality of beauty in its graceful and
+delicate foliage, and the last to scatter its yellow yet scarcely withered
+leaves upon the ground. All through the winter, too, its yellow twigs give it a
+sunny aspect, which is not without a cheering influence even in the grayest and
+gloomiest day. Beneath a clouded sky it faithfully remembers the sunshine. Our
+old house would lose a charm were the willow to be cut down, with its golden
+crown over the snow-covered roof and its heap of summer verdure.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The lilac-shrubs under my study-windows are likewise almost in leaf: in two or
+three days more I may put forth my hand and pluck the topmost bough in its
+freshest green. These lilacs are very aged, and have lost the luxuriant foliage
+of their prime. The heart, or the judgment, or the moral sense, or the taste is
+dissatisfied with their present aspect. Old age is not venerable when it
+embodies itself in lilacs, rose-bushes, or any other ornamental shrub; it seems
+as if such plants, as they grow only for beauty, ought to flourish always in
+immortal youth, or, at least, to die before their sad decrepitude. Trees of
+beauty are trees of paradise, and therefore not subject to decay by their
+original nature, though they have lost that precious birthright by being
+transplanted to an earthly soil. There is a kind of ludicrous unfitness in the
+idea of a time-stricken and grandfatherly lilac-bush. The analogy holds good in
+human life. Persons who can only be graceful and ornamental&mdash;who can give
+the world nothing but flowers&mdash;should die young, and never be seen with
+gray hair and wrinkles, any more than the flower-shrubs with mossy bark and
+blighted foliage, like the lilacs under my window. Not that beauty is worthy of
+less than immortality; no, the beautiful should live forever,&mdash;and thence,
+perhaps, the sense of impropriety when we see it triumphed over by time.
+Apple-trees, on the other hand, grow old without reproach. Let them live as
+long as they may, and contort themselves into whatever perversity of shape they
+please, and deck their withered limbs with a springtime gaudiness of pink
+blossoms; still they are respectable, even if they afford us only an apple or
+two in a season. Those few apples&mdash;or, at all events, the remembrance of
+apples in bygone years&mdash;are the atonement which utilitarianism inexorably
+demands for the privilege of lengthened life. Human flower-shrubs, if they will
+grow old on earth, should, besides their lovely blossoms, bear some kind of
+fruit that will satisfy earthly appetites, else neither man nor the decorum of
+nature will deem it fit that the moss should gather on them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+One of the first things that strikes the attention when the white sheet of
+winter is withdrawn is the neglect and disarray that lay hidden beneath it.
+Nature is not cleanly according to our prejudices. The beauty of preceding
+years, now transformed to brown and blighted deformity, obstructs the
+brightening loveliness of the present hour. Our avenue is strewn with the whole
+crop of autumn’s withered leaves. There are quantities of decayed branches
+which one tempest after another has flung down, black and rotten, and one or
+two with the ruin of a bird’s-nest clinging to them. In the garden are the
+dried bean-vines, the brown stalks of the asparagus-bed, and melancholy old
+cabbages which were frozen into the soil before their unthrifty cultivator
+could find time to gather them. How invariably, throughout all the forms of
+life, do we find these intermingled memorials of death! On the soil of thought
+and in the garden of the heart, as well as in the sensual world, he withered
+leaves,&mdash;the ideas and feelings that we have done with. There is no wind
+strong enough to sweep them away; infinite space will not garner then from our
+sight. What mean they? Why may we not be permitted to live and enjoy, as if
+this were the first life and our own the primal enjoyment, instead of treading
+always on these dry hones and mouldering relics, from the aged accumulation of
+which springs all that now appears so young and new? Sweet must have been the
+springtime of Eden, when no earlier year had strewn its decay upon the virgin
+turf and no former experience had ripened into summer and faded into autumn in
+the hearts of its inhabitants! That was a world worth living in. O then
+murmurer, it is out of the very wantonness of such a life that then feignest
+these idle lamentations. There is no decay. Each human soul is the
+first-created inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered
+mansion, and tread in the worn footprints of the past, and have a gray
+clergyman’s ghost for our daily and nightly inmate; yet all these outward
+circumstances are made less than visionary by the renewing power of the spirit.
+Should the spirit ever lose this power,&mdash;should the withered leaves, and
+the rotten branches, and the moss-covered house, and the ghost of the gray past
+ever become its realities, and the verdure and the freshness merely its faint
+dream,&mdash;then let it pray to be released from earth. It will need the air
+of heaven to revive its pristine energies.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+What an unlooked-for flight was this from our shadowy avenue of black-ash and
+balm of Gilead trees into the infinite! Now we have our feet again upon the
+turf. Nowhere does the grass spring up so industriously as in this homely yard,
+along the base of the stone wall, and in the sheltered nooks of the buildings,
+and especially around the southern doorstep,&mdash;a locality which seems
+particularly favorable to its growth, for it is already tall enough to bend
+over and wave in the wind. I observe that several weeds&mdash;and most
+frequently a plant that stains the fingers with its yellow juice&mdash;have
+survived and retained their freshness and sap throughout the winter. One knows
+not how they have deserved such an exception from the common lot of their race.
+They are now the patriarchs of the departed year, and may preach mortality to
+the present generation of flowers and weeds.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Among the delights of spring, how is it possible to forget the birds? Even the
+crows were welcome as the sable harbingers of a brighter and livelier race.
+They visited us before the snow was off, but seem mostly to have betaken
+themselves to remote depths of the woods, which they haunt all summer long.
+Many a time shall I disturb them there, and feel as if I had intruded among a
+company of silent worshippers, as they sit in Sabbath stillness among the
+tree-tops. Their voices, when they speak, are in admirable accordance with the
+tranquil solitude of a summer afternoon; and resounding so far above the head,
+their loud clamor increases the religious quiet of the scene instead of
+breaking it. A crow, however, has no real pretensions to religion, in spite of
+his gravity of mien and black attire; he is certainly a thief, and probably an
+infidel. The gulls are far more respectable, in a moral point of view. These
+denizens of seabeaten rocks and haunters of the lonely beach come up our inland
+river at this season, and soar high overhead, flapping their broad wings in the
+upper sunshine. They are among the most picturesque of birds, because they so
+float and rest upon the air as to become almost stationary parts of the
+landscape. The imagination has time to grow acquainted with them; they have not
+flitted away in a moment. You go up among the clouds and greet these
+lofty-flighted gulls, and repose confidently with them upon the sustaining
+atmosphere. Duck’s have their haunts along the solitary places of the river,
+and alight in flocks upon the broad bosom of the overflowed meadows. Their
+flight is too rapid and determined for the eye to catch enjoyment from it,
+although it never fails to stir up the heart with the sportsman’s ineradicable
+instinct. They have now gone farther northward, but will visit us again in
+autumn.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The smaller birds,&mdash;the little songsters of the woods, and those that
+haunt man’s dwellings and claim human friendship by building their nests under
+the sheltering eaves or among the orchard trees,&mdash;these require a touch
+more delicate and a gentler heart than mine to do them justice. Their outburst
+of melody is like a brook let loose from wintry chains. We need not deem it a
+too high and solemn word to call it a hymn of praise to the Creator; since
+Nature, who pictures the reviving year in so many sights of beauty, has
+expressed the sentiment of renewed life in no other sound save the notes of
+these blessed birds. Their music, however, just now, seems to be incidental,
+and not the result of a set purpose. They are discussing the economy of life
+and love and the site and architecture of their summer residences, and have no
+time to sit on a twig and pour forth solemn hymns, or overtures, operas,
+symphonies, and waltzes. Anxious questions are asked; grave subjects are
+settled in quick and animated debate; and only by occasional accident, as from
+pure ecstasy, does a rich warble roll its tiny waves of golden sound through
+the atmosphere. Their little bodies are as busy as their voices; they are all a
+constant flutter and restlessness. Even when two or three retreat to a tree-top
+to hold council, they wag their tails and heads all the time with the
+irrepressible activity of their nature, which perhaps renders their brief span
+of life in reality as long as the patriarchal age of sluggish man. The
+blackbirds, three species of which consort together, are the noisiest of all
+our feathered citizens. Great companies of them&mdash;more than the famous
+“four-and-twenty” whom Mother Goose has immortalized&mdash;congregate in
+contiguous treetops and vociferate with all the clamor and confusion of a
+turbulent political meeting. Politics, certainly, must be the occasion of such
+tumultuous debates; but still, unlike all other politicians, they instil melody
+into their individual utterances and produce harmony as a general effect. Of
+all bird voices, none are more sweet and cheerful to my ear than those of
+swallows, in the dim, sunstreaked interior of a lofty barn; they address the
+heart with even a closer sympathy than robin-redbreast. But, indeed, all these
+winged people, that dwell in the vicinity of homesteads, seem to partake of
+human nature, and possess the germ, if not the development, of immortal souls.
+We hear them saying their melodious prayers at morning’s blush and eventide. A
+little while ago, in the deep of night, there came the lively thrill of a
+bird’s note from a neighboring tree,&mdash;a real song, such as greets the
+purple dawn or mingles with the yellow sunshine. What could the little bird
+mean by pouring it forth at midnight? Probably the music gushed out of the
+midst of a dream in which he fancied himself in paradise with his mate, but
+suddenly awoke on a cold leafless bough, with a New England mist penetrating
+through his feathers. That was a sad exchange of imagination for reality.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Insects are among the earliest births of sprung. Multitudes of I know not what
+species appeared long ago on the surface of the snow. Clouds of them, almost
+too minute for sight, hover in a beam of sunshine, and vanish, as if
+annihilated, when they pass into the shade. A mosquito has already been heard
+to sound the small horror of his bugle-horn. Wasps infest the sunny windows of
+the house. A bee entered one of the chambers with a prophecy of flowers. Rare
+butterflies came before the snow was off, flaunting in the chill breeze, and
+looking forlorn and all astray, in spite of the magnificence of their dark
+velvet cloaks, with golden borders.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The fields and wood-paths have as yet few charms to entice the wanderer. In a
+walk, the other day, I found no violets, nor anemones, nor anything in the
+likeness of a flower. It was worth while, however, to ascend our opposite hill
+for the sake of gaining a general idea of the advance of spring, which I had
+hitherto been studying in its minute developments. The river lay around me in a
+semicircle, overflowing all the meadows which give it its Indian name, and
+offering a noble breadth to sparkle in the sunbeams. Along the hither shore a
+row of trees stood up to their knees in water; and afar off, on the surface of
+the stream, tufts of bushes thrust up their heads, as it were, to breathe. The
+most striking objects were great solitary trees here and there, with a
+mile-wide waste of water all around them. The curtailment of the trunk, by its
+immersion in the river, quite destroys the fair proportions of the tree, and
+thus makes us sensible of a regularity and propriety in the usual forms of
+nature. The flood of the present season&mdash;though it never amounts to a
+freshet on our quiet stream&mdash;has encroached farther upon the land than any
+previous one for at least a score of years. It has overflowed stone fences, and
+even rendered a portion of the highway navigable for boats.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The waters, however, are now gradually subsiding; islands become annexed to the
+mainland; and other islands emerge, like new creations, from the watery waste.
+The scene supplies an admirable image of the receding of the Nile, except that
+there is no deposit of black slime; or of Noah’s flood, only that there is a
+freshness and novelty in these recovered portions of the continent which give
+the impression of a world just made rather than of one so polluted that a
+deluge had been requisite to purify it. These upspringing islands are the
+greenest spots in the landscape; the first gleam of sunlight suffices to cover
+them with verdure.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thank Providence for spring! The earth&mdash;and man himself, by sympathy with
+his birthplace would be far other than we find them if life toiled wearily
+onward without this periodical infusion of the primal spirit. Will the world
+ever be so decayed that spring may not renew its greenness? Can man be so
+dismally age stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may revisit him
+once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into
+beauty; the good old pastor who once dwelt here renewed his prime, regained his
+boyhood, in the genial breezes of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and
+heavy soul if, whether in youth or age, it have outlived its privilege of
+springtime sprightliness! From such a soul the world must hope no reformation
+of its evil, no sympathy with the lofty faith and gallant struggles of those
+who contend in its behalf. Summer works in the present, and thinks not of the
+future; autumn is a rich conservative; winter has utterly lost its faith, and
+clings tremulously to the remembrance of what has been; but spring, with its
+outgushing life, is the true type of the movement.
+</p>
+
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+Title: Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                       BUDS AND BIRD VOICES
+
+
+
+Balmy Spring--weeks later than we expected and months later than we
+longed for her--comes at last to revive the moss on the roof and
+walls of our old mansion.  She peeps brightly into my study-window,
+inviting me to throw it open and create a summer atmosphere by the
+intermixture of her genial breath with the black and cheerless
+comfort of the stove.  As the casement ascends, forth into infinite
+space fly the innumerable forms of thought or fancy that have kept me
+company in the retirement of this little chamber during the sluggish
+lapse of wintry weather; visions, gay, grotesque, and sad; pictures
+of real life, tinted with nature's homely gray and russet; scenes in
+dreamland, bedizened with rainbow hues which faded before they were
+well laid on,--all these may vanish now, and leave me to mould a
+fresh existence out of sunshine, Brooding Meditation may flap her
+dusky wings and take her owl-like Right, blinking amid the
+cheerfulness of noontide.  Such companions befit the season of
+frosted window-panes and crackling fires, when the blast howls
+through the black-ash trees of our avenue and the drifting snow-storm
+chokes up the wood-paths and fills the highway from stone wall
+to stone wall.  In the spring and summer time all sombre thoughts
+should follow the winter northward with the sombre and thoughtful
+crows. The old paradisiacal economy of life is again in force; we
+live, not to think or to labor, but for the simple end of being
+happy. Nothing for the present hour is worthy of man's infinite
+capacity save to imbibe the warm smile of heaven and sympathize with
+the reviving earth.
+
+The present Spring comes onward with fleeter footsteps, because
+Winter lingered so unconscionably long that with her best diligence
+she can hardly retrieve half the allotted period of her reign.  It
+is but a fortnight since I stood on the brink of our swollen river
+and beheld the accumulated ice of four frozen months go down the
+stream.  Except in streaks here and there upon the hillsides, the
+whole visible universe was then covered with deep snow, the
+nethermost layer of which had been deposited by an early December
+storm.  It was a sight to make the beholder torpid, in the
+impossibility of imagining how this vast white napkin was to be
+removed from the face of the corpse-like world in less time than had
+been required to spread it there.  But who can estimate the power of
+gentle influences, whether amid material desolation or the moral
+winter of man's heart?  There have been no tempestuous rains, even
+no sultry days, but a constant breath of southern winds, with now a
+day of kindly sunshine, and now a no less kindly mist or a soft
+descent of showers, in which a smile and a blessing seemed to have
+been steeped.  The snow has vanished as if by magic; whatever heaps
+may be hidden in the woods and deep gorges of the hills, only two
+solitary specks remain in the landscape; and those I shall almost
+regret to miss when to-morrow I look for them in vain.  Never
+before, methinks, has spring pressed so closely on the footsteps of
+retreating winter.  Along the roadside the green blades of grass
+have sprouted on the very edge of the snow-drifts.  The pastures and
+mowing-fields have not vet assumed a general aspect of verdure; but
+neither have they the cheerless-brown tint which they wear in latter
+autumn when vegetation has entirely ceased; there is now a faint
+shadow of life, gradually brightening into the warm reality.  Some
+tracts in a happy exposure,--as, for instance, yonder southwestern
+slope of an orchard, in front of that old red farm-house beyond the
+river,--such patches of land already wear a beautiful and tender
+green, to which no future luxuriance can add a charm.  It looks
+unreal; a prophecy, a hope, a transitory effect of sonic peculiar
+light, which will vanish with the slightest motion of the eye.  But
+beauty is never a delusion; not these verdant tracts, but the dark
+and barren landscape all around them, is a shadow and a dream.  Each
+moment wins seine portion of the earth from death to life; a sudden
+gleam of verdure brightens along the sunny slope of a bank which an
+instant ago was brown and bare.  You look again, and behold an
+apparition of green grass!
+
+The trees in our orchard and elsewhere are as yet naked, but already
+appear full of life and vegetable blood.  It seems as if by one
+magic touch they might instantaneously burst into full foliage, and
+that the wind which now sighs through their naked branches might
+make sudden music amid innumerable leaves.  The mossgrown
+willow-tree which for forty years past has overshadowed these western
+windows will be among the first to put on its green attire.  There
+are some objections to the willow; it is not a dry and cleanly tree,
+and impresses the beholder with an association of sliminess.  No
+trees, I think, are perfectly agreeable as companions unless they
+have glossy leaves, dry bark, and a firm and hard texture of trunk
+and branches.  But the willow is almost the earliest to gladden us
+with the promise and reality of beauty in its graceful and delicate
+foliage, and the last to scatter its yellow yet scarcely withered
+leaves upon the ground.  All through the winter, too, its yellow
+twigs give it a sunny aspect, which is not without a cheering
+influence even in the grayest and gloomiest day.  Beneath a clouded
+sky it faithfully remembers the sunshine.  Our old house would lose
+a charm were the willow to be cut down, with its golden crown over
+the snow-covered roof and its heap of summer verdure.
+
+The lilac-shrubs under my study-windows are likewise almost in leaf:
+in two or three days more I may put forth my hand and pluck the
+topmost bough in its freshest green.  These lilacs are very aged,
+and have lost the luxuriant foliage of their prime.  The heart, or
+the judgment, or the moral sense, or the taste is dissatisfied with
+their present aspect.  Old age is not venerable when it embodies
+itself in lilacs, rose-bushes, or any other ornamental shrub; it
+seems as if such plants, as they grow only for beauty, ought to
+flourish always in immortal youth, or, at least, to die before their
+sad decrepitude.  Trees of beauty are trees of paradise, and
+therefore not subject to decay by their original nature, though they
+have lost that precious birthright by being transplanted to an
+earthly soil.  There is a kind of ludicrous unfitness in the idea of
+a time-stricken and grandfatherly lilac-bush.  The analogy holds
+good in human life. Persons who can only be graceful and ornamental--who
+can give the world nothing but flowers--should die young, and
+never be seen with gray hair and wrinkles, any more than the
+flower-shrubs with mossy bark and blighted foliage, like the lilacs under
+my window. Not that beauty is worthy of less than immortality; no,
+the beautiful should live forever,--and thence, perhaps, the sense
+of impropriety when we see it triumphed over by time.  Apple-trees,
+on the other hand, grow old without reproach.  Let them live as long
+as they may, and contort themselves into whatever perversity of
+shape they please, and deck their withered limbs with a springtime
+gaudiness of pink blossoms; still they are respectable, even if they
+afford us only an apple or two in a season.  Those few apples--or,
+at all events, the remembrance of apples in bygone years--are the
+atonement which utilitarianism inexorably demands for the privilege
+of lengthened life.  Human flower-shrubs, if they will grow old on
+earth, should, besides their lovely blossoms, bear some kind of
+fruit that will satisfy earthly appetites, else neither man nor the
+decorum of nature will deem it fit that the moss should gather on
+them.
+
+One of the first things that strikes the attention when the white
+sheet of winter is withdrawn is the neglect and disarray that lay
+hidden beneath it.  Nature is not cleanly according to our
+prejudices.  The beauty of preceding years, now transformed to brown
+and blighted deformity, obstructs the brightening loveliness of the
+present hour.  Our avenue is strewn with the whole crop of autumn's
+withered leaves.  There are quantities of decayed branches which one
+tempest after another has flung down, black and rotten, and one or
+two with the ruin of a bird's-nest clinging to them.  In the garden
+are the dried bean-vines, the brown stalks of the asparagus-bed, and
+melancholy old cabbages which were frozen into the soil before their
+unthrifty cultivator could find time to gather them.  How
+invariably, throughout all the forms of life, do we find these
+intermingled memorials of death!  On the soil of thought and in the
+garden of the heart, as well as in the sensual world, he withered
+leaves,--the ideas and feelings that we have done with.  There is no
+wind strong enough to sweep them away; infinite space will not
+garner then from our sight.  What mean they?  Why may we not be
+permitted to live and enjoy, as if this were the first life and our
+own the primal enjoyment, instead of treading always on these dry
+hones and mouldering relics, from the aged accumulation of which
+springs all that now appears so young and new?  Sweet must have been
+the springtime of Eden, when no earlier year had strewn its decay
+upon the virgin turf and no former experience had ripened into
+summer and faded into autumn in the hearts of its inhabitants! That
+was a world worth living in.  O then murmurer, it is out of the very
+wantonness of such a life that then feignest these idle
+lamentations.  There is no decay.  Each human soul is the first-created
+inhabitant of its own Eden.  We dwell in an old moss-covered
+mansion, and tread in the worn footprints of the past, and have a
+gray clergyman's ghost for our daily and nightly inmate; yet all
+these outward circumstances are made less than visionary by the
+renewing power of the spirit.  Should the spirit ever lose this
+power,--should the withered leaves, and the rotten branches, and the
+moss-covered house, and the ghost of the gray past ever become its
+realities, and the verdure and the freshness merely its faint
+dream,--then let it pray to be released from earth.  It will need
+the air of heaven to revive its pristine energies.
+
+What an unlooked-for flight was this from our shadowy avenue of
+black-ash and balm of Gilead trees into the infinite!  Now we have
+our feet again upon the turf.  Nowhere does the grass spring up so
+industriously as in this homely yard, along the base of the stone
+wall, and in the sheltered nooks of the buildings, and especially
+around the southern doorstep,--a locality which seems particularly
+favorable to its growth, for it is already tall enough to bend over
+and wave in the wind.  I observe that several weeds--and most
+frequently a plant that stains the fingers with its yellow juice--have
+survived and retained their freshness and sap throughout the
+winter.  One knows not how they have deserved such an exception from
+the common lot of their race.  They are now the patriarchs of the
+departed year, and may preach mortality to the present generation of
+flowers and weeds.
+
+Among the delights of spring, how is it possible to forget the
+birds?  Even the crows were welcome as the sable harbingers of a
+brighter and livelier race.  They visited us before the snow was
+off, but seem mostly to have betaken themselves to remote depths of
+the woods, which they haunt all summer long.  Many a time shall I
+disturb them there, and feel as if I had intruded among a company of
+silent worshippers, as they sit in Sabbath stillness among the
+tree-tops.  Their voices, when they speak, are in admirable accordance
+with the tranquil solitude of a summer afternoon; and resounding so
+far above the head, their loud clamor increases the religious quiet
+of the scene instead of breaking it.  A crow, however, has no real
+pretensions to religion, in spite of his gravity of mien and black
+attire; he is certainly a thief, and probably an infidel.  The gulls
+are far more respectable, in a moral point of view.  These denizens
+of seabeaten rocks and haunters of the lonely beach come up our
+inland river at this season, and soar high overhead, flapping their
+broad wings in the upper sunshine.  They are among the most
+picturesque of birds, because they so float and rest upon the air as
+to become almost stationary parts of the landscape.  The imagination
+has time to grow acquainted with them; they have not flitted away in
+a moment.  You go up among the clouds and greet these lofty-flighted
+gulls, and repose confidently with them upon the sustaining
+atmosphere.  Duck's have their haunts along the solitary places of
+the river, and alight in flocks upon the broad bosom of the
+overflowed meadows.  Their flight is too rapid and determined for
+the eye to catch enjoyment from it, although it never fails to stir
+up the heart with the sportsman's ineradicable instinct.  They have
+now gone farther northward, but will visit us again in autumn.
+
+The smaller birds,--the little songsters of the woods, and those
+that haunt man's dwellings and claim human friendship by building
+their nests under the sheltering eaves or among the orchard trees,--these
+require a touch more delicate and a gentler heart than mine to
+do them justice.  Their outburst of melody is like a brook let loose
+from wintry chains.  We need not deem it a too high and solemn word
+to call it a hymn of praise to the Creator; since Nature, who
+pictures the reviving year in so many sights of beauty, has
+expressed the sentiment of renewed life in no other sound save the
+notes of these blessed birds.  Their music, however, just now, seems
+to be incidental, and not the result of a set purpose.  They are
+discussing the economy of life and love and the site and
+architecture of their summer residences, and have no time to sit on
+a twig and pour forth solemn hymns, or overtures, operas,
+symphonies, and waltzes.  Anxious questions are asked; grave
+subjects are settled in quick and animated debate; and only by
+occasional accident, as from pure ecstasy, does a rich warble roll
+its tiny waves of golden sound through the atmosphere.  Their little
+bodies are as busy as their voices; they are all a constant flutter
+and restlessness.  Even when two or three retreat to a tree-top to
+hold council, they wag their tails and heads all the time with the
+irrepressible activity of their nature, which perhaps renders their
+brief span of life in reality as long as the patriarchal age of
+sluggish man.  The blackbirds, three species of which consort
+together, are the noisiest of all our feathered citizens.  Great
+companies of them--more than the famous "four-and-twenty" whom
+Mother Goose has immortalized--congregate in contiguous treetops and
+vociferate with all the clamor and confusion of a turbulent
+political meeting.  Politics, certainly, must be the occasion of
+such tumultuous debates; but still, unlike all other politicians,
+they instil melody into their individual utterances and produce
+harmony as a general effect.  Of all bird voices, none are more
+sweet and cheerful to my ear than those of swallows, in the dim,
+sunstreaked interior of a lofty barn; they address the heart with
+even a closer sympathy than robin-redbreast.  But, indeed, all these
+winged people, that dwell in the vicinity of homesteads, seem to
+partake of human nature, and possess the germ, if not the
+development, of immortal souls.  We hear them saying their melodious
+prayers at morning's blush and eventide.  A little while ago, in the
+deep of night, there came the lively thrill of a bird's note from a
+neighboring tree,--a real song, such as greets the purple dawn or
+mingles with the yellow sunshine.  What could the little bird mean
+by pouring it forth at midnight? Probably the music gushed out of
+the midst of a dream in which he fancied himself in paradise with
+his mate, but suddenly awoke on a cold leafless bough, with a New
+England mist penetrating through his feathers.  That was a sad
+exchange of imagination for reality.
+
+Insects are among the earliest births of sprung.  Multitudes of I
+know not what species appeared long ago on the surface of the snow.
+Clouds of them, almost too minute for sight, hover in a beam of
+sunshine, and vanish, as if annihilated, when they pass into the
+shade.  A mosquito has already been heard to sound the small horror
+of his bugle-horn.  Wasps infest the sunny windows of the house.  A
+bee entered one of the chambers with a prophecy of flowers.  Rare
+butterflies came before the snow was off, flaunting in the chill
+breeze, and looking forlorn and all astray, in spite of the
+magnificence of their dark velvet cloaks, with golden borders.
+
+The fields and wood-paths have as yet few charms to entice the
+wanderer.  In a walk, the other day, I found no violets, nor
+anemones, nor anything in the likeness of a flower.  It was worth
+while, however, to ascend our opposite hill for the sake of gaining
+a general idea of the advance of spring, which I had hitherto been
+studying in its minute developments.  The river lay around me in a
+semicircle, overflowing all the meadows which give it its Indian
+name, and offering a noble breadth to sparkle in the sunbeams.
+Along the hither shore a row of trees stood up to their knees in
+water; and afar off, on the surface of the stream, tufts of bushes
+thrust up their heads, as it were, to breathe. The most striking
+objects were great solitary trees here and there, with a mile-wide
+waste of water all around them.  The curtailment of the trunk, by
+its immersion in the river, quite destroys the fair proportions of
+the tree, and thus makes us sensible of a regularity and propriety
+in the usual forms of nature.  The flood of the present
+season--though it never amounts to a freshet on our quiet stream--has
+encroached farther upon the land than any previous one for at least
+a score of years.  It has overflowed stone fences, and even rendered
+a portion of the highway navigable for boats.
+
+The waters, however, are now gradually subsiding; islands become
+annexed to the mainland; and other islands emerge, like new
+creations, from the watery waste.  The scene supplies an admirable
+image of the receding of the Nile, except that there is no deposit
+of black slime; or of Noah's flood, only that there is a freshness
+and novelty in these recovered portions of the continent which give
+the impression of a world just made rather than of one so polluted
+that a deluge had been requisite to purify it.  These upspringing
+islands are the greenest spots in the landscape; the first gleam of
+sunlight suffices to cover them with verdure.
+
+Thank Providence for spring!  The earth--and man himself, by
+sympathy with his birthplace would be far other than we find them if
+life toiled wearily onward without this periodical infusion of the
+primal spirit.  Will the world ever be so decayed that spring may
+not renew its greenness?  Can man be so dismally age stricken that
+no faintest sunshine of his youth may revisit him once a year?  It
+is impossible.  The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into
+beauty; the good old pastor who once dwelt here renewed his prime,
+regained his boyhood, in the genial breezes of his ninetieth spring.
+Alas for the worn and heavy soul if, whether in youth or age, it
+have outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!  From such
+a soul the world must hope no reformation of its evil, no sympathy
+with the lofty faith and gallant struggles of those who contend in
+its behalf.  Summer works in the present, and thinks not of the
+future; autumn is a rich conservative; winter has utterly lost its
+faith, and clings tremulously to the remembrance of what has been;
+but spring, with its outgushing life, is the true type of the
+movement.
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                       BUDS AND BIRD VOICES
+
+
+
+Balmy Spring--weeks later than we expected and months later than we
+longed for her--comes at last to revive the moss on the roof and
+walls of our old mansion.  She peeps brightly into my study-window,
+inviting me to throw it open and create a summer atmosphere by the
+intermixture of her genial breath with the black and cheerless
+comfort of the stove.  As the casement ascends, forth into infinite
+space fly the innumerable forms of thought or fancy that have kept me
+company in the retirement of this little chamber during the sluggish
+lapse of wintry weather; visions, gay, grotesque, and sad; pictures
+of real life, tinted with nature's homely gray and russet; scenes in
+dreamland, bedizened with rainbow hues which faded before they were
+well laid on,--all these may vanish now, and leave me to mould a
+fresh existence out of sunshine, Brooding Meditation may flap her
+dusky wings and take her owl-like Right, blinking amid the
+cheerfulness of noontide.  Such companions befit the season of
+frosted window-panes and crackling fires, when the blast howls
+through the black-ash trees of our avenue and the drifting snow-
+storm chokes up the wood-paths and fills the highway from stone wall
+to stone wall.  In the spring and summer time all sombre thoughts
+should follow the winter northward with the sombre and thoughtful
+crows. The old paradisiacal economy of life is again in force; we
+live, not to think or to labor, but for the simple end of being
+happy. Nothing for the present hour is worthy of man's infinite
+capacity save to imbibe the warm smile of heaven and sympathize with
+the reviving earth.
+
+The present Spring comes onward with fleeter footsteps, because
+Winter lingered so unconscionably long that with her best diligence
+she can hardly retrieve half the allotted period of her reign.  It
+is but a fortnight since I stood on the brink of our swollen river
+and beheld the accumulated ice of four frozen months go down the
+stream.  Except in streaks here and there upon the hillsides, the
+whole visible universe was then covered with deep snow, the
+nethermost layer of which had been deposited by an early December
+storm.  It was a sight to make the beholder torpid, in the
+impossibility of imagining how this vast white napkin was to be
+removed from the face of the corpse-like world in less time than had
+been required to spread it there.  But who can estimate the power of
+gentle influences, whether amid material desolation or the moral
+winter of man's heart?  There have been no tempestuous rains, even
+no sultry days, but a constant breath of southern winds, with now a
+day of kindly sunshine, and now a no less kindly mist or a soft
+descent of showers, in which a smile and a blessing seemed to have
+been steeped.  The snow has vanished as if by magic; whatever heaps
+may be hidden in the woods and deep gorges of the hills, only two
+solitary specks remain in the landscape; and those I shall almost
+regret to miss when to-morrow I look for them in vain.  Never
+before, methinks, has spring pressed so closely on the footsteps of
+retreating winter.  Along the roadside the green blades of grass
+have sprouted on the very edge of the snow-drifts.  The pastures and
+mowing-fields have not vet assumed a general aspect of verdure; but
+neither have they the cheerless-brown tint which they wear in latter
+autumn when vegetation has entirely ceased; there is now a faint
+shadow of life, gradually brightening into the warm reality.  Some
+tracts in a happy exposure,--as, for instance, yonder southwestern
+slope of an orchard, in front of that old red farm-house beyond the
+river,--such patches of land already wear a beautiful and tender
+green, to which no future luxuriance can add a charm.  It looks
+unreal; a prophecy, a hope, a transitory effect of sonic peculiar
+light, which will vanish with the slightest motion of the eye.  But
+beauty is never a delusion; not these verdant tracts, but the dark
+and barren landscape all around them, is a shadow and a dream.  Each
+moment wins seine portion of the earth from death to life; a sudden
+gleam of verdure brightens along the sunny slope of a bank which an
+instant ago was brown and bare.  You look again, and behold an
+apparition of green grass!
+
+The trees in our orchard and elsewhere are as yet naked, but already
+appear full of life and vegetable blood.  It seems as if by one
+magic touch they might instantaneously burst into full foliage, and
+that the wind which now sighs through their naked branches might
+make sudden music amid innumerable leaves.  The mossgrown willow-
+tree which for forty years past has overshadowed these western
+windows will be among the first to put on its green attire.  There
+are some objections to the willow; it is not a dry and cleanly tree,
+and impresses the beholder with an association of sliminess.  No
+trees, I think, are perfectly agreeable as companions unless they
+have glossy leaves, dry bark, and a firm and hard texture of trunk
+and branches.  But the willow is almost the earliest to gladden us
+with the promise and reality of beauty in its graceful and delicate
+foliage, and the last to scatter its yellow yet scarcely withered
+leaves upon the ground.  All through the winter, too, its yellow
+twigs give it a sunny aspect, which is not without a cheering
+influence even in the grayest and gloomiest day.  Beneath a clouded
+sky it faithfully remembers the sunshine.  Our old house would lose
+a charm were the willow to be cut down, with its golden crown over
+the snow-covered roof and its heap of summer verdure.
+
+The lilac-shrubs under my study-windows are likewise almost in leaf:
+in two or three days more I may put forth my hand and pluck the
+topmost bough in its freshest green.  These lilacs are very aged,
+and have lost the luxuriant foliage of their prime.  The heart, or
+the judgment, or the moral sense, or the taste is dissatisfied with
+their present aspect.  Old age is not venerable when it embodies
+itself in lilacs, rose-bushes, or any other ornamental shrub; it
+seems as if such plants, as they grow only for beauty, ought to
+flourish always in immortal youth, or, at least, to die before their
+sad decrepitude.  Trees of beauty are trees of paradise, and
+therefore not subject to decay by their original nature, though they
+have lost that precious birthright by being transplanted to an
+earthly soil.  There is a kind of ludicrous unfitness in the idea of
+a time-stricken and grandfatherly lilac-bush.  The analogy holds
+good in human life. Persons who can only be graceful and ornamental
+--who can give the world nothing but flowers--should die young, and
+never be seen with gray hair and wrinkles, any more than the flower-
+shrubs with mossy bark and blighted foliage, like the lilacs under
+my window. Not that beauty is worthy of less than immortality; no,
+the beautiful should live forever,--and thence, perhaps, the sense
+of impropriety when we see it triumphed over by time.  Apple-trees,
+on the other hand, grow old without reproach.  Let them live as long
+as they may, and contort themselves into whatever perversity of
+shape they please, and deck their withered limbs with a springtime
+gaudiness of pink blossoms; still they are respectable, even if they
+afford us only an apple or two in a season.  Those few apples--or,
+at all events, the remembrance of apples in bygone years--are the
+atonement which utilitarianism inexorably demands for the privilege
+of lengthened life.  Human flower-shrubs, if they will grow old on
+earth, should, besides their lovely blossoms, bear some kind of
+fruit that will satisfy earthly appetites, else neither man nor the
+decorum of nature will deem it fit that the moss should gather on
+them.
+
+One of the first things that strikes the attention when the white
+sheet of winter is withdrawn is the neglect and disarray that lay
+hidden beneath it.  Nature is not cleanly according to our
+prejudices.  The beauty of preceding years, now transformed to brown
+and blighted deformity, obstructs the brightening loveliness of the
+present hour.  Our avenue is strewn with the whole crop of autumn's
+withered leaves.  There are quantities of decayed branches which one
+tempest after another has flung down, black and rotten, and one or
+two with the ruin of a bird's-nest clinging to them.  In the garden
+are the dried bean-vines, the brown stalks of the asparagus-bed, and
+melancholy old cabbages which were frozen into the soil before their
+unthrifty cultivator could find time to gather them.  How
+invariably, throughout all the forms of life, do we find these
+intermingled memorials of death!  On the soil of thought and in the
+garden of the heart, as well as in the sensual world, he withered
+leaves,--the ideas and feelings that we have done with.  There is no
+wind strong enough to sweep them away; infinite space will not
+garner then from our sight.  What mean they?  Why may we not be
+permitted to live and enjoy, as if this were the first life and our
+own the primal enjoyment, instead of treading always on these dry
+hones and mouldering relics, from the aged accumulation of which
+springs all that now appears so young and new?  Sweet must have been
+the springtime of Eden, when no earlier year had strewn its decay
+upon the virgin turf and no former experience had ripened into
+summer and faded into autumn in the hearts of its inhabitants! That
+was a world worth living in.  O then murmurer, it is out of the very
+wantonness of such a life that then feignest these idle
+lamentations.  There is no decay.  Each human soul is the first-
+created inhabitant of its own Eden.  We dwell in an old moss-covered
+mansion, and tread in the worn footprints of the past, and have a
+gray clergyman's ghost for our daily and nightly inmate; yet all
+these outward circumstances are made less than visionary by the
+renewing power of the spirit.  Should the spirit ever lose this
+power,--should the withered leaves, and the rotten branches, and the
+moss-covered house, and the ghost of the gray past ever become its
+realities, and the verdure and the freshness merely its faint
+dream,--then let it pray to be released from earth.  It will need
+the air of heaven to revive its pristine energies.
+
+What an unlooked-for flight was this from our shadowy avenue of
+black-ash and balm of Gilead trees into the infinite!  Now we have
+our feet again upon the turf.  Nowhere does the grass spring up so
+industriously as in this homely yard, along the base of the stone
+wall, and in the sheltered nooks of the buildings, and especially
+around the southern doorstep,--a locality which seems particularly
+favorable to its growth, for it is already tall enough to bend over
+and wave in the wind.  I observe that several weeds--and most
+frequently a plant that stains the fingers with its yellow juice--
+have survived and retained their freshness and sap throughout the
+winter.  One knows not how they have deserved such an exception from
+the common lot of their race.  They are now the patriarchs of the
+departed year, and may preach mortality to the present generation of
+flowers and weeds.
+
+Among the delights of spring, how is it possible to forget the
+birds?  Even the crows were welcome as the sable harbingers of a
+brighter and livelier race.  They visited us before the snow was
+off, but seem mostly to have betaken themselves to remote depths of
+the woods, which they haunt all summer long.  Many a time shall I
+disturb them there, and feel as if I had intruded among a company of
+silent worshippers, as they sit in Sabbath stillness among the tree-
+tops.  Their voices, when they speak, are in admirable accordance
+with the tranquil solitude of a summer afternoon; and resounding so
+far above the head, their loud clamor increases the religious quiet
+of the scene instead of breaking it.  A crow, however, has no real
+pretensions to religion, in spite of his gravity of mien and black
+attire; he is certainly a thief, and probably an infidel.  The gulls
+are far more respectable, in a moral point of view.  These denizens
+of seabeaten rocks and haunters of the lonely beach come up our
+inland river at this season, and soar high overhead, flapping their
+broad wings in the upper sunshine.  They are among the most
+picturesque of birds, because they so float and rest upon the air as
+to become almost stationary parts of the landscape.  The imagination
+has time to grow acquainted with them; they have not flitted away in
+a moment.  You go up among the clouds and greet these lofty-flighted
+gulls, and repose confidently with them upon the sustaining
+atmosphere.  Duck's have their haunts along the solitary places of
+the river, and alight in flocks upon the broad bosom of the
+overflowed meadows.  Their flight is too rapid and determined for
+the eye to catch enjoyment from it, although it never fails to stir
+up the heart with the sportsman's ineradicable instinct.  They have
+now gone farther northward, but will visit us again in autumn.
+
+The smaller birds,--the little songsters of the woods, and those
+that haunt man's dwellings and claim human friendship by building
+their nests under the sheltering eaves or among the orchard trees,--
+these require a touch more delicate and a gentler heart than mine to
+do them justice.  Their outburst of melody is like a brook let loose
+from wintry chains.  We need not deem it a too high and solemn word
+to call it a hymn of praise to the Creator; since Nature, who
+pictures the reviving year in so many sights of beauty, has
+expressed the sentiment of renewed life in no other sound save the
+notes of these blessed birds.  Their music, however, just now, seems
+to be incidental, and not the result of a set purpose.  They are
+discussing the economy of life and love and the site and
+architecture of their summer residences, and have no time to sit on
+a twig and pour forth solemn hymns, or overtures, operas,
+symphonies, and waltzes.  Anxious questions are asked; grave
+subjects are settled in quick and animated debate; and only by
+occasional accident, as from pure ecstasy, does a rich warble roll
+its tiny waves of golden sound through the atmosphere.  Their little
+bodies are as busy as their voices; they are all a constant flutter
+and restlessness.  Even when two or three retreat to a tree-top to
+hold council, they wag their tails and heads all the time with the
+irrepressible activity of their nature, which perhaps renders their
+brief span of life in reality as long as the patriarchal age of
+sluggish man.  The blackbirds, three species of which consort
+together, are the noisiest of all our feathered citizens.  Great
+companies of them--more than the famous "four-and-twenty" whom
+Mother Goose has immortalized--congregate in contiguous treetops and
+vociferate with all the clamor and confusion of a turbulent
+political meeting.  Politics, certainly, must be the occasion of
+such tumultuous debates; but still, unlike all other politicians,
+they instil melody into their individual utterances and produce
+harmony as a general effect.  Of all bird voices, none are more
+sweet and cheerful to my ear than those of swallows, in the dim,
+sunstreaked interior of a lofty barn; they address the heart with
+even a closer sympathy than robin-redbreast.  But, indeed, all these
+winged people, that dwell in the vicinity of homesteads, seem to
+partake of human nature, and possess the germ, if not the
+development, of immortal souls.  We hear them saying their melodious
+prayers at morning's blush and eventide.  A little while ago, in the
+deep of night, there came the lively thrill of a bird's note from a
+neighboring tree,--a real song, such as greets the purple dawn or
+mingles with the yellow sunshine.  What could the little bird mean
+by pouring it forth at midnight? Probably the music gushed out of
+the midst of a dream in which he fancied himself in paradise with
+his mate, but suddenly awoke on a cold leafless bough, with a New
+England mist penetrating through his feathers.  That was a sad
+exchange of imagination for reality.
+
+Insects are among the earliest births of sprung.  Multitudes of I
+know not what species appeared long ago on the surface of the snow.
+Clouds of them, almost too minute for sight, hover in a beam of
+sunshine, and vanish, as if annihilated, when they pass into the
+shade.  A mosquito has already been heard to sound the small horror
+of his bugle-horn.  Wasps infest the sunny windows of the house.  A
+bee entered one of the chambers with a prophecy of flowers.  Rare
+butterflies came before the snow was off, flaunting in the chill
+breeze, and looking forlorn and all astray, in spite of the
+magnificence of their dark velvet cloaks, with golden borders.
+
+The fields and wood-paths have as yet few charms to entice the
+wanderer.  In a walk, the other day, I found no violets, nor
+anemones, nor anything in the likeness of a flower.  It was worth
+while, however, to ascend our opposite hill for the sake of gaining
+a general idea of the advance of spring, which I had hitherto been
+studying in its minute developments.  The river lay around me in a
+semicircle, overflowing all the meadows which give it its Indian
+name, and offering a noble breadth to sparkle in the sunbeams.
+Along the hither shore a row of trees stood up to their knees in
+water; and afar off, on the surface of the stream, tufts of bushes
+thrust up their heads, as it were, to breathe. The most striking
+objects were great solitary trees here and there, with a mile-wide
+waste of water all around them.  The curtailment of the trunk, by
+its immersion in the river, quite destroys the fair proportions of
+the tree, and thus makes us sensible of a regularity and propriety
+in the usual forms of nature.  The flood of the present season--
+though it never amounts to a freshet on our quiet stream--has
+encroached farther upon the land than any previous one for at least
+a score of years.  It has overflowed stone fences, and even rendered
+a portion of the highway navigable for boats.
+
+The waters, however, are now gradually subsiding; islands become
+annexed to the mainland; and other islands emerge, like new
+creations, from the watery waste.  The scene supplies an admirable
+image of the receding of the Nile, except that there is no deposit
+of black slime; or of Noah's flood, only that there is a freshness
+and novelty in these recovered portions of the continent which give
+the impression of a world just made rather than of one so polluted
+that a deluge had been requisite to purify it.  These upspringing
+islands are the greenest spots in the landscape; the first gleam of
+sunlight suffices to cover them with verdure.
+
+Thank Providence for spring!  The earth--and man himself, by
+sympathy with his birthplace would be far other than we find them if
+life toiled wearily onward without this periodical infusion of the
+primal spirit.  Will the world ever be so decayed that spring may
+not renew its greenness?  Can man be so dismally age stricken that
+no faintest sunshine of his youth may revisit him once a year?  It
+is impossible.  The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into
+beauty; the good old pastor who once dwelt here renewed his prime,
+regained his boyhood, in the genial breezes of his ninetieth spring.
+Alas for the worn and heavy soul if, whether in youth or age, it
+have outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!  From such
+a soul the world must hope no reformation of its evil, no sympathy
+with the lofty faith and gallant struggles of those who contend in
+its behalf.  Summer works in the present, and thinks not of the
+future; autumn is a rich conservative; winter has utterly lost its
+faith, and clings tremulously to the remembrance of what has been;
+but spring, with its outgushing life, is the true type of the
+movement.
+
+
+
+
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