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If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + +Title: Buds and Bird Voices + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Release Date: September 6, 2003 [eBook #9224] +[Most recently updated: November 9, 2022] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: David Widger and Al Haines + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUDS AND BIRD VOICES *** + + + + +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. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUDS AND BIRD VOICES *** + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the +United States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part +of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm +concept and trademark. 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