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+Title: Buds and Bird Voices
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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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