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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/9237-0.txt b/9237-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8ea779 --- /dev/null +++ b/9237-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,616 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Bell’s Biography, by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and +most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions +whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms +of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + +Title: A Bell’s Biography + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Release Date: September 18, 2003 [eBook #9237] +[Most recently updated: May 16, 2022] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: David Widger + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BELL’S BIOGRAPHY *** + + + + +A Bell’s Biography + +by Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + + +Hearken to our neighbor with the iron tongue. While I sit musing over +my sheet of foolscap, he emphatically tells the hour, in tones loud +enough for all the town to hear, though doubtless intended only as a +gentle hint to myself, that I may begin his biography before the +evening shall be further wasted. Unquestionably, a personage in such an +elevated position, and making so great a noise in the world, has a fair +claim to the services of a biographer. He is the representative and +most illustrious member of that innumerable class, whose characteristic +feature is the tongue, and whose sole business, to clamor for the +public good. If any of his noisy brethren, in our tongue-governed +democracy, be envious of the superiority which I have assigned him, +they have my free consent to hang themselves as high as he. And, for +his history, let not the reader apprehend an empty repetition of +ding-dong-bell. He has been the passive hero of wonderful vicissitudes, +with which I have chanced to become acquainted, possibly from his own +mouth; while the careless multitude supposed him to be talking merely +of the time of day, or calling them to dinner or to church, or bidding +drowsy people go bedward, or the dead to their graves. Many a +revolution has it been his fate to go through, and invariably with a +prodigious uproar. And whether or no he have told me his reminiscences, +this at least is true, that the more I study his deep-toned language, +the more sense, and sentiment, and soul, do I discover in it. + +This bell—for we may as well drop our quaint personification—is of +antique French manufacture, and the symbol of the cross betokens that +it was meant to be suspended in the belfry of a Romish place of +worship. The old people hereabout have a tradition, that a considerable +part of the metal was supplied by a brass cannon, captured in one of +the victories of Louis the Fourteenth over the Spaniards, and that a +Bourbon princess threw her golden crucifix into the molten mass. It is +said, likewise, that a bishop baptized and blessed the bell, and prayed +that a heavenly influence might mingle with its tones. When all due +ceremonies had been performed, the Grand Monarque bestowed the +gift—than which none could resound his beneficence more loudly—on the +Jesuits, who were then converting the American Indians to the spiritual +dominion of the Pope. So the bell,—our self-same bell, whose familiar +voice we may hear at all hours, in the streets,—this very bell sent +forth its first-born accents from the tower of a log-built chapel, +westward of Lake Champlain, and near the mighty stream of the St. +Lawrence. It was called Our Lady’s Chapel of the Forest. The peal went +forth as if to redeem and consecrate the heathen wilderness. The wolf +growled at the sound, as he prowled stealthily through the underbrush; +the grim bear turned his back, and stalked sullenly away; the startled +doe leaped up, and led her fawn into a deeper solitude. The red men +wondered what awful voice was speaking amid the wind that roared +through the tree-tops; and, following reverentially its summons, the +dark-robed fathers blessed them, as they drew near the cross-crowned +chapel. In a little time, there was a crucifix on every dusky bosom. +The Indians knelt beneath the lowly roof, worshipping in the same forms +that were observed under the vast dome of St. Peter’s, when the Pope +performed high mass in the presence of kneeling princes. All the +religious festivals, that awoke the chiming bells of lofty cathedrals, +called forth a peal from Our Lady’s Chapel of the Forest. Loudly rang +the bell of the wilderness while the streets of Paris echoed with +rejoicings for the birthday of the Bourbon, or whenever France had +triumphed on some European battle-field. And the solemn woods were +saddened with a melancholy knell, as often as the thick-strewn leaves +were swept away from the virgin soil, for the burial of an Indian +chief. + +Meantime, the bells of a hostile people and a hostile faith were +ringing on Sabbaths and lecture-days, at Boston and other Puritan +towns. Their echoes died away hundreds of miles southeastward of Our +Lady’s Chapel. But scouts had threaded the pathless desert that lay +between, and, from behind the huge tree-trunks, perceived the Indians +assembling at the summons of the bell. Some bore flaxen-haired scalps +at their girdles, as if to lay those bloody trophies on Our Lady’s +altar. It was reported, and believed, all through New England, that the +Pope of Rome, and the King of France, had established this little +chapel in the forest, for the purpose of stirring up the red men to a +crusade against the English settlers. The latter took energetic +measures to secure their religion and their lives. On the eve of an +especial fast of the Romish Church, while the bell tolled dismally, and +the priests were chanting a doleful stave, a band of New England +rangers rushed from the surrounding woods. Fierce shouts, and the +report of musketry, pealed suddenly within the chapel. The ministering +priests threw themselves before the altar, and were slain even on its +steps. If, as antique traditions tell us, no grass will grow where the +blood of martyrs has been shed, there should be a barren spot, to this +very day, on the site of that desecrated altar. + +While the blood was still plashing from step to step, the leader of the +rangers seized a torch, and applied it to the drapery of the shrine. +The flame and smoke arose, as from a burnt-sacrifice, at once +illuminating and obscuring the whole interior of the chapel,—now hiding +the dead priests in a sable shroud, now revealing them and their +slayers in one terrific glare. Some already wished that the altar-smoke +could cover the deed from the sight of Heaven. But one of the rangers—a +man of sanctified aspect, though his hands were bloody—approached the +captain. + +“Sir,” said he, “our village meeting-house lacks a bell, and hitherto +we have been fain to summon the good people to worship by beat of drum. +Give me, I pray you, the bell of this popish chapel, for the sake of +the godly Mr. Rogers, who doubtless hath remembered us in the prayers +of the congregation, ever since we began our march. Who can tell what +share of this night’s good success we owe to that holy man’s wrestling +with the Lord?” + +“Nay, then,” answered the captain, “if good Mr. Rogers hath holpen our +enterprise, it is right that he should share the spoil. Take the bell +and welcome, Deacon Lawson, if you will be at the trouble of carrying +it home. Hitherto it hath spoken nothing but papistry, and that too in +the French or Indian gibberish; but I warrant me, if Mr. Rogers +consecrate it anew, it will talk like a good English and Protestant +bell.” + +So Deacon Lawson and half a score of his townsmen took down the bell, +suspended it on a pole, and bore it away on their sturdy shoulders, +meaning to carry it to the shore of Lake Champlain, and thence homeward +by water. Far through the woods gleamed the flames of Our Lady’s +Chapel, flinging fantastic shadows from the clustered foliage, and +glancing on brooks that had never caught the sunlight. As the rangers +traversed the midnight forest, staggering under their heavy burden, the +tongue of the bell gave many a tremendous stroke,—clang, clang, +clang!—a most doleful sound, as if it were tolling for the slaughter of +the priests and the ruin of the chapel. Little dreamed Deacon Lawson +and his townsmen that it was their own funeral knell. A war-party of +Indians had heard the report, of musketry, and seen the blaze of the +chapel, and now were on the track of the rangers, summoned to vengeance +by the bell’s dismal murmurs. In the midst of a deep swamp, they made a +sudden onset on the retreating foe. Good Deacon Lawson battled stoutly, +but had his skull cloven by a tomahawk, and sank into the depths of the +morass, with the ponderous bell above him. And, for many a year +thereafter, our hero’s voice was heard no more on earth, neither at the +hour of worship, nor at festivals nor funerals. + +And is he still buried in that unknown grave? Scarcely so, dear reader. +Hark! How plainly we hear him at this moment, the spokesman of Time, +proclaiming that it is nine o’clock at night! We may therefore safely +conclude that some happy chance has restored him to upper air. + +But there lay the bell, for many silent years; and the wonder is, that +he did not lie silent there a century, or perhaps a dozen centuries, +till the world should have forgotten not only his voice, but the voices +of the whole brotherhood of bells. How would the first accent of his +iron tongue have startled his resurrectionists! But he was not fated to +be a subject of discussion among the antiquaries of far posterity. Near +the close of the Old French War, a party of New England axe-men, who +preceded the march of Colonel Bradstreet toward Lake Ontario, were +building a bridge of logs through a swamp. Plunging down a stake, one +of these pioneers felt it graze against some hard, smooth substance. He +called his comrades, and, by their united efforts, the top of the bell +was raised to the surface, a rope made fast to it, and thence passed +over the horizontal limb of a tree. Heave ho! up they hoisted their +prize, dripping with moisture, and festooned with verdant water-moss. +As the base of the bell emerged from the swamp, the pioneers perceived +that a skeleton was clinging with its bony fingers to the clapper, but +immediately relaxing its nerveless grasp, sank back into the stagnant +water. The bell then gave forth a sullen clang. No wonder that he was +in haste to speak, after holding his tongue for such a length of time! +The pioneers shoved the bell to and fro, thus ringing a loud and heavy +peal, which echoed widely through the forest, and reached the ears of +Colonel Bradstreet, and his three thousand men. The soldiers paused on +their march; a feeling of religion, mingled with borne-tenderness, +overpowered their rude hearts; each seemed to hear the clangor of the +old church-bell, which had been familiar to hint from infancy, and had +tolled at the funerals of all his forefathers. By what magic had that +holy sound strayed over the wide-murmuring ocean, and become audible +amid the clash of arms, the loud crashing of the artillery over the +rough wilderness-path, and the melancholy roar of the wind among the +boughs? + +The New-Englanders hid their prize in a shadowy nook, betwixt a large +gray stone and the earthy roots of an overthrown tree; and when the +campaign was ended, they conveyed our friend to Boston, and put him up +at auction on the sidewalk of King Street. He was suspended, for the +nonce, by a block and tackle, and being swung backward and forward, +gave such loud and clear testimony to his own merits, that the +auctioneer had no need to say a word. The highest bidder was a rich old +representative from our town, who piously bestowed the bell on the +meeting-house where he had been a worshipper for half a century. The +good man had his reward. By a strange coincidence, the very first duty +of the sexton, after the bell had been hoisted into the belfry, was to +toll the funeral knell of the donor. Soon, however, those doleful +echoes were drowned by a triumphant peal for the surrender of Quebec. + +Ever since that period, our hero has occupied the same elevated +station, and has put in his word on all matters of public importance, +civil, military, or religious. On the day when Independence was first +proclaimed in the street beneath, he uttered a peal which many deemed +ominous and fearful, rather than triumphant. But he has told the same +story these sixty years, and none mistake his meaning now. When +Washington, in the fulness of his glory, rode through our flower-strewn +streets, this was the tongue that bade the Father of his Country +welcome! Again the same voice was heard, when La Fayette came to gather +in his half-century’s harvest of gratitude. Meantime, vast changes have +been going on below. His voice, which once floated over a little +provincial seaport, is now reverberated between brick edifices, and +strikes the ear amid the buzz and tumult of a city. On the Sabbaths of +olden time, the summons of the bell was obeyed by a picturesque and +varied throng; stately gentlemen in purple velvet coats, embroidered +waistcoats, white wigs, and gold-laced hats, stepping with grave +courtesy beside ladies in flowered satin gowns, and hoop-petticoats of +majestic circumference; while behind followed a liveried slave or +bondsman, bearing the psalm-book, and a stove for his mistress’s feet. +The commonalty, clad in homely garb, gave precedence to their betters +at the door of the meetinghouse, as if admitting that there were +distinctions between them, even in the sight of God. Yet, as their +coffins were borne one after another through the street, the bell has +tolled a requiem for all alike. What mattered it, whether or no there +were a silver scutcheon on the coffin-lid? “Open thy bosom, Mother +Earth!” Thus spake the bell. “Another of thy children is coming to his +long rest. Take him to thy bosom, and let him slumber in peace.” Thus +spake the bell, and Mother Earth received her child. With the self-same +tones will the present generation be ushered to the embraces of their +mother; and Mother Earth will still receive her children. Is not thy +tongue a-weary, mournful talker of two centuries? O funeral bell! wilt +thou never be shattered with thine own melancholy strokes? Yea, and a +trumpet-call shall arouse the sleepers, whom thy heavy clang could +awake no more! + +Again—again thy voice, reminding me that I am wasting the “midnight +oil.” In my lonely fantasy, I can scarce believe that other mortals +have caught the sound, or that it vibrates elsewhere than in my secret +soul. But to many hast thou spoken. Anxious men have heard thee on +their sleepless pillows, and bethought themselves anew of to-morrow’s +care. In a brief interval of wakefulness, the sons of toil have heard +thee, and say, “Is so much of our quiet slumber spent?—is the morning +so near at hand?” Crime has heard thee, and mutters, “Now is the very +hour!” Despair answers thee, “Thus much of this weary life is gone!” +The young mother, on her bed of pain and ecstasy, has counted thy +echoing strokes, and dates from them her first-born’s share of life and +immortality. The bridegroom and the bride have listened, and feel that +their night of rapture flits like a dream away. Thine accents have +fallen faintly on the ear of the dying man, and warned him that, ere +thou speakest again, his spirit shall have passed whither no voice of +time can ever reach. Alas for the departing traveller, if thy voice—the +voice of fleeting time—have taught him no lessons for Eternity! + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BELL’S BIOGRAPHY *** + +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. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, +and may not be used if you charge for an eBook, except by following +the terms of the trademark license, including paying royalties for use +of the Project Gutenberg trademark. 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While I sit musing over my sheet +of foolscap, he emphatically tells the hour, in tones loud enough for all the +town to hear, though doubtless intended only as a gentle hint to myself, that I +may begin his biography before the evening shall be further wasted. +Unquestionably, a personage in such an elevated position, and making so great a +noise in the world, has a fair claim to the services of a biographer. He is the +representative and most illustrious member of that innumerable class, whose +characteristic feature is the tongue, and whose sole business, to clamor for +the public good. If any of his noisy brethren, in our tongue-governed +democracy, be envious of the superiority which I have assigned him, they have +my free consent to hang themselves as high as he. And, for his history, let not +the reader apprehend an empty repetition of ding-dong-bell. He has been the +passive hero of wonderful vicissitudes, with which I have chanced to become +acquainted, possibly from his own mouth; while the careless multitude supposed +him to be talking merely of the time of day, or calling them to dinner or to +church, or bidding drowsy people go bedward, or the dead to their graves. Many +a revolution has it been his fate to go through, and invariably with a +prodigious uproar. And whether or no he have told me his reminiscences, this at +least is true, that the more I study his deep-toned language, the more sense, +and sentiment, and soul, do I discover in it. +</p> + +<p> +This bell—for we may as well drop our quaint personification—is of +antique French manufacture, and the symbol of the cross betokens that it was +meant to be suspended in the belfry of a Romish place of worship. The old +people hereabout have a tradition, that a considerable part of the metal was +supplied by a brass cannon, captured in one of the victories of Louis the +Fourteenth over the Spaniards, and that a Bourbon princess threw her golden +crucifix into the molten mass. It is said, likewise, that a bishop baptized and +blessed the bell, and prayed that a heavenly influence might mingle with its +tones. When all due ceremonies had been performed, the Grand Monarque bestowed +the gift—than which none could resound his beneficence more +loudly—on the Jesuits, who were then converting the American Indians to +the spiritual dominion of the Pope. So the bell,—our self-same bell, +whose familiar voice we may hear at all hours, in the streets,—this very +bell sent forth its first-born accents from the tower of a log-built chapel, +westward of Lake Champlain, and near the mighty stream of the St. Lawrence. It +was called Our Lady’s Chapel of the Forest. The peal went forth as if to +redeem and consecrate the heathen wilderness. The wolf growled at the sound, as +he prowled stealthily through the underbrush; the grim bear turned his back, +and stalked sullenly away; the startled doe leaped up, and led her fawn into a +deeper solitude. The red men wondered what awful voice was speaking amid the +wind that roared through the tree-tops; and, following reverentially its +summons, the dark-robed fathers blessed them, as they drew near the +cross-crowned chapel. In a little time, there was a crucifix on every dusky +bosom. The Indians knelt beneath the lowly roof, worshipping in the same forms +that were observed under the vast dome of St. Peter’s, when the Pope +performed high mass in the presence of kneeling princes. All the religious +festivals, that awoke the chiming bells of lofty cathedrals, called forth a +peal from Our Lady’s Chapel of the Forest. Loudly rang the bell of the +wilderness while the streets of Paris echoed with rejoicings for the birthday +of the Bourbon, or whenever France had triumphed on some European battle-field. +And the solemn woods were saddened with a melancholy knell, as often as the +thick-strewn leaves were swept away from the virgin soil, for the burial of an +Indian chief. +</p> + +<p> +Meantime, the bells of a hostile people and a hostile faith were ringing on +Sabbaths and lecture-days, at Boston and other Puritan towns. Their echoes died +away hundreds of miles southeastward of Our Lady’s Chapel. But scouts had +threaded the pathless desert that lay between, and, from behind the huge +tree-trunks, perceived the Indians assembling at the summons of the bell. Some +bore flaxen-haired scalps at their girdles, as if to lay those bloody trophies +on Our Lady’s altar. It was reported, and believed, all through New +England, that the Pope of Rome, and the King of France, had established this +little chapel in the forest, for the purpose of stirring up the red men to a +crusade against the English settlers. The latter took energetic measures to +secure their religion and their lives. On the eve of an especial fast of the +Romish Church, while the bell tolled dismally, and the priests were chanting a +doleful stave, a band of New England rangers rushed from the surrounding woods. +Fierce shouts, and the report of musketry, pealed suddenly within the chapel. +The ministering priests threw themselves before the altar, and were slain even +on its steps. If, as antique traditions tell us, no grass will grow where the +blood of martyrs has been shed, there should be a barren spot, to this very +day, on the site of that desecrated altar. +</p> + +<p> +While the blood was still plashing from step to step, the leader of the rangers +seized a torch, and applied it to the drapery of the shrine. The flame and +smoke arose, as from a burnt-sacrifice, at once illuminating and obscuring the +whole interior of the chapel,—now hiding the dead priests in a sable +shroud, now revealing them and their slayers in one terrific glare. Some +already wished that the altar-smoke could cover the deed from the sight of +Heaven. But one of the rangers—a man of sanctified aspect, though his +hands were bloody—approached the captain. +</p> + +<p> +“Sir,” said he, “our village meeting-house lacks a bell, and +hitherto we have been fain to summon the good people to worship by beat of +drum. Give me, I pray you, the bell of this popish chapel, for the sake of the +godly Mr. Rogers, who doubtless hath remembered us in the prayers of the +congregation, ever since we began our march. Who can tell what share of this +night’s good success we owe to that holy man’s wrestling with the +Lord?” +</p> + +<p> +“Nay, then,” answered the captain, “if good Mr. Rogers hath +holpen our enterprise, it is right that he should share the spoil. Take the +bell and welcome, Deacon Lawson, if you will be at the trouble of carrying it +home. Hitherto it hath spoken nothing but papistry, and that too in the French +or Indian gibberish; but I warrant me, if Mr. Rogers consecrate it anew, it +will talk like a good English and Protestant bell.” +</p> + +<p> +So Deacon Lawson and half a score of his townsmen took down the bell, suspended +it on a pole, and bore it away on their sturdy shoulders, meaning to carry it +to the shore of Lake Champlain, and thence homeward by water. Far through the +woods gleamed the flames of Our Lady’s Chapel, flinging fantastic shadows +from the clustered foliage, and glancing on brooks that had never caught the +sunlight. As the rangers traversed the midnight forest, staggering under their +heavy burden, the tongue of the bell gave many a tremendous +stroke,—clang, clang, clang!—a most doleful sound, as if it were +tolling for the slaughter of the priests and the ruin of the chapel. Little +dreamed Deacon Lawson and his townsmen that it was their own funeral knell. A +war-party of Indians had heard the report, of musketry, and seen the blaze of +the chapel, and now were on the track of the rangers, summoned to vengeance by +the bell’s dismal murmurs. In the midst of a deep swamp, they made a +sudden onset on the retreating foe. Good Deacon Lawson battled stoutly, but had +his skull cloven by a tomahawk, and sank into the depths of the morass, with +the ponderous bell above him. And, for many a year thereafter, our hero’s +voice was heard no more on earth, neither at the hour of worship, nor at +festivals nor funerals. +</p> + +<p> +And is he still buried in that unknown grave? Scarcely so, dear reader. Hark! +How plainly we hear him at this moment, the spokesman of Time, proclaiming that +it is nine o’clock at night! We may therefore safely conclude that some +happy chance has restored him to upper air. +</p> + +<p> +But there lay the bell, for many silent years; and the wonder is, that he did +not lie silent there a century, or perhaps a dozen centuries, till the world +should have forgotten not only his voice, but the voices of the whole +brotherhood of bells. How would the first accent of his iron tongue have +startled his resurrectionists! But he was not fated to be a subject of +discussion among the antiquaries of far posterity. Near the close of the Old +French War, a party of New England axe-men, who preceded the march of Colonel +Bradstreet toward Lake Ontario, were building a bridge of logs through a swamp. +Plunging down a stake, one of these pioneers felt it graze against some hard, +smooth substance. He called his comrades, and, by their united efforts, the top +of the bell was raised to the surface, a rope made fast to it, and thence +passed over the horizontal limb of a tree. Heave ho! up they hoisted their +prize, dripping with moisture, and festooned with verdant water-moss. As the +base of the bell emerged from the swamp, the pioneers perceived that a skeleton +was clinging with its bony fingers to the clapper, but immediately relaxing its +nerveless grasp, sank back into the stagnant water. The bell then gave forth a +sullen clang. No wonder that he was in haste to speak, after holding his tongue +for such a length of time! The pioneers shoved the bell to and fro, thus +ringing a loud and heavy peal, which echoed widely through the forest, and +reached the ears of Colonel Bradstreet, and his three thousand men. The +soldiers paused on their march; a feeling of religion, mingled with +borne-tenderness, overpowered their rude hearts; each seemed to hear the +clangor of the old church-bell, which had been familiar to hint from infancy, +and had tolled at the funerals of all his forefathers. By what magic had that +holy sound strayed over the wide-murmuring ocean, and become audible amid the +clash of arms, the loud crashing of the artillery over the rough +wilderness-path, and the melancholy roar of the wind among the boughs? +</p> + +<p> +The New-Englanders hid their prize in a shadowy nook, betwixt a large gray +stone and the earthy roots of an overthrown tree; and when the campaign was +ended, they conveyed our friend to Boston, and put him up at auction on the +sidewalk of King Street. He was suspended, for the nonce, by a block and +tackle, and being swung backward and forward, gave such loud and clear +testimony to his own merits, that the auctioneer had no need to say a word. The +highest bidder was a rich old representative from our town, who piously +bestowed the bell on the meeting-house where he had been a worshipper for half +a century. The good man had his reward. By a strange coincidence, the very +first duty of the sexton, after the bell had been hoisted into the belfry, was +to toll the funeral knell of the donor. Soon, however, those doleful echoes +were drowned by a triumphant peal for the surrender of Quebec. +</p> + +<p> +Ever since that period, our hero has occupied the same elevated station, and +has put in his word on all matters of public importance, civil, military, or +religious. On the day when Independence was first proclaimed in the street +beneath, he uttered a peal which many deemed ominous and fearful, rather than +triumphant. But he has told the same story these sixty years, and none mistake +his meaning now. When Washington, in the fulness of his glory, rode through our +flower-strewn streets, this was the tongue that bade the Father of his Country +welcome! Again the same voice was heard, when La Fayette came to gather in his +half-century’s harvest of gratitude. Meantime, vast changes have been +going on below. His voice, which once floated over a little provincial seaport, +is now reverberated between brick edifices, and strikes the ear amid the buzz +and tumult of a city. On the Sabbaths of olden time, the summons of the bell +was obeyed by a picturesque and varied throng; stately gentlemen in purple +velvet coats, embroidered waistcoats, white wigs, and gold-laced hats, stepping +with grave courtesy beside ladies in flowered satin gowns, and hoop-petticoats +of majestic circumference; while behind followed a liveried slave or bondsman, +bearing the psalm-book, and a stove for his mistress’s feet. The +commonalty, clad in homely garb, gave precedence to their betters at the door +of the meetinghouse, as if admitting that there were distinctions between them, +even in the sight of God. Yet, as their coffins were borne one after another +through the street, the bell has tolled a requiem for all alike. What mattered +it, whether or no there were a silver scutcheon on the coffin-lid? “Open +thy bosom, Mother Earth!” Thus spake the bell. “Another of thy +children is coming to his long rest. Take him to thy bosom, and let him slumber +in peace.” Thus spake the bell, and Mother Earth received her child. With +the self-same tones will the present generation be ushered to the embraces of +their mother; and Mother Earth will still receive her children. Is not thy +tongue a-weary, mournful talker of two centuries? O funeral bell! wilt thou +never be shattered with thine own melancholy strokes? Yea, and a trumpet-call +shall arouse the sleepers, whom thy heavy clang could awake no more! +</p> + +<p> +Again—again thy voice, reminding me that I am wasting the “midnight +oil.” In my lonely fantasy, I can scarce believe that other mortals have +caught the sound, or that it vibrates elsewhere than in my secret soul. But to +many hast thou spoken. Anxious men have heard thee on their sleepless pillows, +and bethought themselves anew of to-morrow’s care. In a brief interval of +wakefulness, the sons of toil have heard thee, and say, “Is so much of +our quiet slumber spent?—is the morning so near at hand?” Crime has +heard thee, and mutters, “Now is the very hour!” Despair answers +thee, “Thus much of this weary life is gone!” The young mother, on +her bed of pain and ecstasy, has counted thy echoing strokes, and dates from +them her first-born’s share of life and immortality. The bridegroom and +the bride have listened, and feel that their night of rapture flits like a +dream away. Thine accents have fallen faintly on the ear of the dying man, and +warned him that, ere thou speakest again, his spirit shall have passed whither +no voice of time can ever reach. Alas for the departing traveller, if thy +voice—the voice of fleeting time—have taught him no lessons for +Eternity! +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BELL’S BIOGRAPHY ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +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. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Bell's Biography + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Posting Date: December 20, 2010 [EBook #9237] +Release Date: November, 2005 +First Posted: September 18, 2003 +Last Updated: February 6, 2007 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BELL'S BIOGRAPHY *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines + + + + + + + + + + + THE SNOW-IMAGE + + AND + + OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES + + + + A BELL'S BIOGRAPHY + + By + + Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + +Hearken to our neighbor with the iron tongue. While I sit musing over my +sheet of foolscap, he emphatically tells the hour, in tones loud enough +for all the town to hear, though doubtless intended only as a gentle hint +to myself, that I may begin his biography before the evening shall be +further wasted. Unquestionably, a personage in such an elevated +position, and making so great a noise in the world, has a fair claim to +the services of a biographer. He is the representative and most +illustrious member of that innumerable class, whose characteristic +feature is the tongue, and whose sole business, to clamor for the public +good. If any of his noisy brethren, in our tongue-governed democracy, be +envious of the superiority which I have assigned him, they have my free +consent to hang themselves as high as he. And, for his history, let not +the reader apprehend an empty repetition of ding-dong-bell. +He has been the passive hero of wonderful vicissitudes, with which I have +chanced to become acquainted, possibly from his own mouth; while the +careless multitude supposed him to be talking merely of the time of day, +or calling them to dinner or to church, or bidding drowsy people go +bedward, or the dead to their graves. Many a revolution has it been his +fate to go through, and invariably with a prodigious uproar. And whether +or no he have told me his reminiscences, this at least is true, that the +more I study his deep-toned language, the more sense, and sentiment, and +soul, do I discover in it. + +This bell--for we may as well drop our quaint personification--is of +antique French manufacture, and the symbol of the cross betokens that it +was meant to be suspended in the belfry of a Romish place of worship. +The old people hereabout have a tradition, that a considerable part of +the metal was supplied by a brass cannon, captured in one of the +victories of Louis the Fourteenth over the Spaniards, and that a Bourbon +princess threw her golden crucifix into the molten mass. It is said, +likewise, that a bishop baptized and blessed the bell, and prayed that a +heavenly influence might mingle with its tones. When all due ceremonies +had been performed, the Grand Monarque bestowed the gift--than which none +could resound his beneficence more loudly--on the Jesuits, who were then +converting the American Indians to the spiritual dominion of the Pope. +So the bell,--our self-same bell, whose familiar voice we may hear at all +hours, in the streets,--this very bell sent forth its first-born accents +from the tower of a log-built chapel, westward of Lake Champlain, and +near the mighty stream of the St. Lawrence. It was called Our Lady's +Chapel of the Forest. The peal went forth as if to redeem and consecrate +the heathen wilderness. The wolf growled at the sound, as he prowled +stealthily through the underbrush; the grim bear turned his back, and +stalked sullenly away; the startled doe leaped up, and led her fawn into +a deeper solitude. The red men wondered what awful voice was speaking +amid the wind that roared through the tree-tops; and, following +reverentially its summons, the dark-robed fathers blessed them, as they +drew near the cross-crowned chapel. In a little time, there was a +crucifix on every dusky bosom. The Indians knelt beneath the lowly roof, +worshipping in the same forms that were observed under the vast dome of +St. Peter's, when the Pope performed high mass in the presence of +kneeling princes. All the religious festivals, that awoke the chiming +bells of lofty cathedrals, called forth a peal from Our Lady's Chapel of +the Forest. Loudly rang the bell of the wilderness while the streets of +Paris echoed with rejoicings for the birthday of the Bourbon, or whenever +France had triumphed on some European battle-field. And the solemn woods +were saddened with a melancholy knell, as often as the thick-strewn leaves +were swept away from the virgin soil, for the burial of an Indian chief. + +Meantime, the bells of a hostile people and a hostile faith were ringing +on Sabbaths and lecture-days, at Boston and other Puritan towns. Their +echoes died away hundreds of miles southeastward of Our Lady's Chapel. +But scouts had threaded the pathless desert that lay between, and, from +behind the huge tree-trunks, perceived the Indians assembling at the +summons of the bell. Some bore flaxen-haired scalps at their girdles, as +if to lay those bloody trophies on Our Lady's altar. It was reported, +and believed, all through New England, that the Pope of Rome, and the +King of France, had established this little chapel in the forest, for the +purpose of stirring up the red men to a crusade against the English +settlers. The latter took energetic measures to secure their religion +and their lives. On the eve of an especial fast of the Romish Church, +while the bell tolled dismally, and the priests were chanting a doleful +stave, a band of New England rangers rushed from the surrounding woods. +Fierce shouts, and the report of musketry, pealed suddenly within the +chapel. The ministering priests threw themselves before the altar, and +were slain even on its steps. If, as antique traditions tell us, no +grass will grow where the blood of martyrs has been shed, there should be +a barren spot, to this very day, on the site of that desecrated altar. + +While the blood was still plashing from step to step, the leader of the +rangers seized a torch, and applied it to the drapery of the shrine. The +flame and smoke arose, as from a burnt-sacrifice, at once illuminating +and obscuring the whole interior of the chapel,--now hiding the dead +priests in a sable shroud, now revealing them and their slayers in one +terrific glare. Some already wished that the altar-smoke could cover the +deed from the sight of Heaven. But one of the rangers--a man of +sanctified aspect, though his hands were bloody--approached the captain. + +"Sir," said he, "our village meeting-house lacks a bell, and hitherto we +have been fain to summon the good people to worship by beat of drum. +Give me, I pray you, the bell of this popish chapel, for the sake of the +godly Mr. Rogers, who doubtless hath remembered us in the prayers of the +congregation, ever since we began our march. Who can tell what share of +this night's good success we owe to that holy man's wrestling with the +Lord?" + +"Nay, then," answered the captain, "if good Mr. Rogers hath holpen our +enterprise, it is right that he should share the spoil. Take the bell +and welcome, Deacon Lawson, if you will be at the trouble of carrying it +home. Hitherto it hath spoken nothing but papistry, and that too in the +French or Indian gibberish; but I warrant me, if Mr. Rogers consecrate it +anew, it will talk like a good English and Protestant bell." + +So Deacon Lawson and half a score of his townsmen took down the bell, +suspended it on a pole, and bore it away on their sturdy shoulders, +meaning to carry it to the shore of Lake Champlain, and thence homeward +by water. Far through the woods gleamed the flames of Our Lady's Chapel, +flinging fantastic shadows from the clustered foliage, and glancing on +brooks that had never caught the sunlight. As the rangers traversed the +midnight forest, staggering under their heavy burden, the tongue of the +bell gave many a tremendous stroke,--clang, clang, clang!--a most +doleful sound, as if it were tolling for the slaughter of the priests and +the ruin of the chapel. Little dreamed Deacon Lawson and his townsmen +that it was their own funeral knell. A war-party of Indians had heard +the report, of musketry, and seen the blaze of the chapel, and now were +on the track of the rangers, summoned to vengeance by the bell's dismal +murmurs. In the midst of a deep swamp, they made a sudden onset on the +retreating foe. Good Deacon Lawson battled stoutly, but had his skull +cloven by a tomahawk, and sank into the depths of the morass, with the +ponderous bell above him. And, for many a year thereafter, our hero's +voice was heard no more on earth, neither at the hour of worship, nor at +festivals nor funerals. + +And is he still buried in that unknown grave? Scarcely so, dear reader. +Hark! How plainly we hear him at this moment, the spokesman of Time, +proclaiming that it is nine o'clock at night! We may therefore safely +conclude that some happy chance has restored him to upper air. + +But there lay the bell, for many silent years; and the wonder is, that he +did not lie silent there a century, or perhaps a dozen centuries, till +the world should have forgotten not only his voice, but the voices of the +whole brotherhood of bells. How would the first accent of his iron +tongue have startled his resurrectionists! But he was not fated to be a +subject of discussion among the antiquaries of far posterity. Near the +close of the Old French War, a party of New England axe-men, who preceded +the march of Colonel Bradstreet toward Lake Ontario, were building a +bridge of logs through a swamp. Plunging down a stake, one of these +pioneers felt it graze against some hard, smooth substance. He called +his comrades, and, by their united efforts, the top of the bell was +raised to the surface, a rope made fast to it, and thence passed over the +horizontal limb of a tree. Heave ho! up they hoisted their prize, +dripping with moisture, and festooned with verdant water-moss. As the +base of the bell emerged from the swamp, the pioneers perceived that a +skeleton was clinging with its bony fingers to the clapper, but +immediately relaxing its nerveless grasp, sank back into the stagnant +water. The bell then gave forth a sullen clang. No wonder that he was +in haste to speak, after holding his tongue for such a length of time! +The pioneers shoved the bell to and fro, thus ringing a loud and heavy +peal, which echoed widely through the forest, and reached the ears of +Colonel Bradstreet, and his three thousand men. The soldiers paused on +their march; a feeling of religion, mingled with borne-tenderness, +overpowered their rude hearts; each seemed to hear the clangor of the old +church-bell, which had been familiar to hint from infancy, and had tolled +at the funerals of all his forefathers. By what magic had that holy +sound strayed over the wide-murmuring ocean, and become audible amid the +clash of arms, the loud crashing of the artillery over the rough +wilderness-path, and the melancholy roar of the wind among the boughs? + +The New-Englanders hid their prize in a shadowy nook, betwixt a large +gray stone and the earthy roots of an overthrown tree; and when the +campaign was ended, they conveyed our friend to Boston, and put him up at +auction on the sidewalk of King Street. He was suspended, for the nonce, +by a block and tackle, and being swung backward and forward, gave such +loud and clear testimony to his own merits, that the auctioneer had no +need to say a word. The highest bidder was a rich old representative +from our town, who piously bestowed the bell on the meeting-house where +he had been a worshipper for half a century. The good man had his +reward. By a strange coincidence, the very first duty of the sexton, +after the bell had been hoisted into the belfry, was to toll the funeral +knell of the donor. Soon, however, those doleful echoes were drowned by +a triumphant peal for the surrender of Quebec. + +Ever since that period, our hero has occupied the same elevated station, +and has put in his word on all matters of public importance, civil, +military, or religious. On the day when Independence was first +proclaimed in the street beneath, he uttered a peal which many deemed +ominous and fearful, rather than triumphant. But he has told the same +story these sixty years, and none mistake his meaning now. When +Washington, in the fulness of his glory, rode through our flower-strewn +streets, this was the tongue that bade the Father of his Country welcome! +Again the same voice was heard, when La Fayette came to gather in his +half-century's harvest of gratitude. Meantime, vast changes have been +going on below. His voice, which once floated over a little provincial +seaport, is now reverberated between brick edifices, and strikes the ear +amid the buzz and tumult of a city. On the Sabbaths of olden time, the +summons of the bell was obeyed by a picturesque and varied throng; +stately gentlemen in purple velvet coats, embroidered waistcoats, white +wigs, and gold-laced hats, stepping with grave courtesy beside ladies in +flowered satin gowns, and hoop-petticoats of majestic circumference; +while behind followed a liveried slave or bondsman, bearing the +psalm-book, and a stove for his mistress's feet. The commonalty, clad in +homely garb, gave precedence to their betters at the door of the +meetinghouse, as if admitting that there were distinctions between them, +even in the sight of God. Yet, as their coffins were borne one after +another through the street, the bell has tolled a requiem for all alike. +What mattered it, whether or no there were a silver scutcheon on the +coffin-lid? "Open thy bosom, Mother Earth!" Thus spake the bell. +"Another of thy children is coming to his long rest. Take him to thy +bosom, and let him slumber in peace." Thus spake the bell, and Mother +Earth received her child. With the self-same tones will the present +generation be ushered to the embraces of their mother; and Mother Earth +will still receive her children. Is not thy tongue a-weary, mournful +talker of two centuries? O funeral bell! wilt thou never be shattered +with thine own melancholy strokes? Yea, and a trumpet-call shall arouse +the sleepers, whom thy heavy clang could awake no more! + +Again--again thy voice, reminding me that I am wasting the "midnight +oil." In my lonely fantasy, I can scarce believe that other mortals have +caught the sound, or that it vibrates elsewhere than in my secret soul. +But to many hast thou spoken. Anxious men have heard thee on their +sleepless pillows, and bethought themselves anew of to-morrow's care. In +a brief interval of wakefulness, the sons of toil have heard thee, and +say, "Is so much of our quiet slumber spent?--is the morning so near at +hand?" Crime has heard thee, and mutters, "Now is the very hour!" +Despair answers thee, "Thus much of this weary life is gone!" The young +mother, on her bed of pain and ecstasy, has counted thy echoing strokes, +and dates from them her first-born's share of life and immortality. The +bridegroom and the bride have listened, and feel that their night of +rapture flits like a dream away. Thine accents have fallen faintly on +the ear of the dying man, and warned him that, ere thou speakest again, +his spirit shall have passed whither no voice of time can ever reach. +Alas for the departing traveller, if thy voice--the voice of fleeting +time--have taught him no lessons for Eternity! + + + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's A Bell's Biography, by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BELL'S BIOGRAPHY *** + +***** This file should be named 9237.txt or 9237.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/3/9237/ + +Produced by David Widger. 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While I sit musing over my +sheet of foolscap, he emphatically tells the hour, in tones loud enough +for all the town to hear, though doubtless intended only as a gentle hint +to myself, that I may begin his biography before the evening shall be +further wasted. Unquestionably, a personage in such an elevated +position, and making so great a noise in the world, has a fair claim to +the services of a biographer. He is the representative and most +illustrious member of that innumerable class, whose characteristic +feature is the tongue, and whose sole business, to clamor for the public +good. If any of his noisy brethren, in our tongue-governed democracy, be +envious of the superiority which I have assigned him, they have my free +consent to hang themselves as high as he. And, for his history, let not +the reader apprehend an empty repetition of ding-dong-bell. +He has been the passive hero of wonderful vicissitudes, with which I have +chanced to become acquainted, possibly from his own mouth; while the +careless multitude supposed him to be talking merely of the time of day, +or calling them to dinner or to church, or bidding drowsy people go +bedward, or the dead to their graves. Many a revolution has it been his +fate to go through, and invariably with a prodigious uproar. And whether +or no he have told me his reminiscences, this at least is true, that the +more I study his deep-toned language, the more sense, and sentiment, and +soul, do I discover in it. + +This bell--for we may as well drop our quaint personification--is of +antique French manufacture, and the symbol of the cross betokens that it +was meant to be suspended in the belfry of a Romish place of worship. +The old people hereabout have a tradition, that a considerable part of +the metal was supplied by a brass cannon, captured in one of the +victories of Louis the Fourteenth over the Spaniards, and that a Bourbon +princess threw her golden crucifix into the molten mass. It is said, +likewise, that a bishop baptized and blessed the bell, and prayed that a +heavenly influence might mingle with its tones. When all due ceremonies +had been performed, the Grand Monarque bestowed the gift--than which none +could resound his beneficence more loudly--on the Jesuits, who were then +converting the American Indians to the spiritual dominion of the Pope. +So the bell,--our self-same bell, whose familiar voice we may hear at all +hours, in the streets,--this very bell sent forth its first-born accents +from the tower of a log-built chapel, westward of Lake Champlain, and +near the mighty stream of the St. Lawrence. It was called Our Lady's +Chapel of the Forest. The peal went forth as if to redeem and consecrate +the heathen wilderness. The wolf growled at the sound, as he prowled +stealthily through the underbrush; the grim bear turned his back, and +stalked sullenly away; the startled doe leaped up, and led her fawn into +a deeper solitude. The red men wondered what awful voice was speaking +amid the wind that roared through the tree-tops; and, following +reverentially its summons, the dark-robed fathers blessed them, as they +drew near the cross-crowned chapel. In a little time, there was a +crucifix on every dusky bosom. The Indians knelt beneath the lowly roof, +worshipping in the same forms that were observed under the vast dome of +St. Peter's, when the Pope performed high mass in the presence of +kneeling princes. All the religious festivals, that awoke the chiming +bells of lofty cathedrals, called forth a peal from Our Lady's Chapel of +the Forest. Loudly rang the bell of the wilderness while the streets of +Paris echoed with rejoicings for the birthday of the Bourbon, or whenever +France had triumphed on some European battle-field. And the solemn woods +were saddened with a melancholy knell, as often as the thick-strewn leaves +were swept away from the virgin soil, for the burial of an Indian chief. + +Meantime, the bells of a hostile people and a hostile faith were ringing +on Sabbaths and lecture-days, at Boston and other Puritan towns. Their +echoes died away hundreds of miles southeastward of Our Lady's Chapel. +But scouts had threaded the pathless desert that lay between, and, from +behind the huge tree-trunks, perceived the Indians assembling at the +summons of the bell. Some bore flaxen-haired scalps at their girdles, as +if to lay those bloody trophies on Our Lady's altar. It was reported, +and believed, all through New England, that the Pope of Rome, and the +King of France, had established this little chapel in the forest, for the +purpose of stirring up the red men to a crusade against the English +settlers. The latter took energetic measures to secure their religion +and their lives. On the eve of an especial fast of the Romish Church, +while the bell tolled dismally, and the priests were chanting a doleful +stave, a band of New England rangers rushed from the surrounding woods. +Fierce shouts, and the report of musketry, pealed suddenly within the +chapel. The ministering priests threw themselves before the altar, and +were slain even on its steps. If, as antique traditions tell us, no +grass will grow where the blood of martyrs has been shed, there should be +a barren spot, to this very day, on the site of that desecrated altar. + +While the blood was still plashing from step to step, the leader of the +rangers seized a torch, and applied it to the drapery of the shrine. The +flame and smoke arose, as from a burnt-sacrifice, at once illuminating +and obscuring the whole interior of the chapel,--now hiding the dead +priests in a sable shroud, now revealing them and their slayers in one +terrific glare. Some already wished that the altar-smoke could cover the +deed from the sight of Heaven. But one of the rangers--a man of +sanctified aspect, though his hands were bloody--approached the captain. + +"Sir," said he, "our village meeting-house lacks a bell, and hitherto we +have been fain to summon the good people to worship by beat of drum. +Give me, I pray you, the bell of this popish chapel, for the sake of the +godly Mr. Rogers, who doubtless hath remembered us in the prayers of the +congregation, ever since we began our march. Who can tell what share of +this night's good success we owe to that holy man's wrestling with the +Lord?" + +"Nay, then," answered the captain, "if good Mr. Rogers hath holpen our +enterprise, it is right that he should share the spoil. Take the bell +and welcome, Deacon Lawson, if you will be at the trouble of carrying it +home. Hitherto it hath spoken nothing but papistry, and that too in the +French or Indian gibberish; but I warrant me, if Mr. Rogers consecrate it +anew, it will talk like a good English and Protestant bell." + +So Deacon Lawson and half a score of his townsmen took down the bell, +suspended it on a pole, and bore it away on their sturdy shoulders, +meaning to carry it to the shore of Lake Champlain, and thence homeward +by water. Far through the woods gleamed the flames of Our Lady's Chapel, +flinging fantastic shadows from the clustered foliage, and glancing on +brooks that had never caught the sunlight. As the rangers traversed the +midnight forest, staggering under their heavy burden, the tongue of the +bell gave many a tremendous stroke,--clang, clang, clang!--a most +doleful sound, as if it were tolling for the slaughter of the priests and +the ruin of the chapel. Little dreamed Deacon Lawson and his townsmen +that it was their own funeral knell. A war-party of Indians had heard +the report, of musketry, and seen the blaze of the chapel, and now were +on the track of the rangers, summoned to vengeance by the bell's dismal +murmurs. In the midst of a deep swamp, they made a sudden onset on the +retreating foe. Good Deacon Lawson battled stoutly, but had his skull +cloven by a tomahawk, and sank into the depths of the morass, with the +ponderous bell above him. And, for many a year thereafter, our hero's +voice was heard no more on earth, neither at the hour of worship, nor at +festivals nor funerals. + +And is he still buried in that unknown grave? Scarcely so, dear reader. +Hark! How plainly we hear him at this moment, the spokesman of Time, +proclaiming that it is nine o'clock at night! We may therefore safely +conclude that some happy chance has restored him to upper air. + +But there lay the bell, for many silent years; and the wonder is, that he +did not lie silent there a century, or perhaps a dozen centuries, till +the world should have forgotten not only his voice, but the voices of the +whole brotherhood of bells. How would the first accent of his iron +tongue have startled his resurrectionists! But he was not fated to be a +subject of discussion among the antiquaries of far posterity. Near the +close of the Old French War, a party of New England axe-men, who preceded +the march of Colonel Bradstreet toward Lake Ontario, were building a +bridge of logs through a swamp. Plunging down a stake, one of these +pioneers felt it graze against some hard, smooth substance. He called +his comrades, and, by their united efforts, the top of the bell was +raised to the surface, a rope made fast to it, and thence passed over the +horizontal limb of a tree. Heave ho! up they hoisted their prize, +dripping with moisture, and festooned with verdant water-moss. As the +base of the bell emerged from the swamp, the pioneers perceived that a +skeleton was clinging with its bony fingers to the clapper, but +immediately relaxing its nerveless grasp, sank back into the stagnant +water. The bell then gave forth a sullen clang. No wonder that he was +in haste to speak, after holding his tongue for such a length of time! +The pioneers shoved the bell to and fro, thus ringing a loud and heavy +peal, which echoed widely through the forest, and reached the ears of +Colonel Bradstreet, and his three thousand men. The soldiers paused on +their march; a feeling of religion, mingled with borne-tenderness, +overpowered their rude hearts; each seemed to hear the clangor of the old +church-bell, which had been familiar to hint from infancy, and had tolled +at the funerals of all his forefathers. By what magic had that holy +sound strayed over the wide-murmuring ocean, and become audible amid the +clash of arms, the loud crashing of the artillery over the rough +wilderness-path, and the melancholy roar of the wind among the boughs? + +The New-Englanders hid their prize in a shadowy nook, betwixt a large +gray stone and the earthy roots of an overthrown tree; and when the +campaign was ended, they conveyed our friend to Boston, and put him up at +auction on the sidewalk of King Street. He was suspended, for the nonce, +by a block and tackle, and being swung backward and forward, gave such +loud and clear testimony to his own merits, that the auctioneer had no +need to say a word. The highest bidder was a rich old representative +from our town, who piously bestowed the bell on the meeting-house where +he had been a worshipper for half a century. The good man had his +reward. By a strange coincidence, the very first duty of the sexton, +after the bell had been hoisted into the belfry, was to toll the funeral +knell of the donor. Soon, however, those doleful echoes were drowned by +a triumphant peal for the surrender of Quebec. + +Ever since that period, our hero has occupied the same elevated station, +and has put in his word on all matters of public importance, civil, +military, or religious. On the day when Independence was first +proclaimed in the street beneath, he uttered a peal which many deemed +ominous and fearful, rather than triumphant. But he has told the same +story these sixty years, and none mistake his meaning now. When +Washington, in the fulness of his glory, rode through our flower-strewn +streets, this was the tongue that bade the Father of his Country welcome! +Again the same voice was heard, when La Fayette came to gather in his +half-century's harvest of gratitude. Meantime, vast changes have been +going on below. His voice, which once floated over a little provincial +seaport, is now reverberated between brick edifices, and strikes the ear +amid the buzz and tumult of a city. On the Sabbaths of olden time, the +summons of the bell was obeyed by a picturesque and varied throng; +stately gentlemen in purple velvet coats, embroidered waistcoats, white +wigs, and gold-laced hats, stepping with grave courtesy beside ladies in +flowered satin gowns, and hoop-petticoats of majestic circumference; +while behind followed a liveried slave or bondsman, bearing the psalm- +book, and a stove for his mistress's feet. The commonalty, clad in +homely garb, gave precedence to their betters at the door of the +meetinghouse, as if admitting that there were distinctions between them, +even in the sight of God. Yet, as their coffins were borne one after +another through the street, the bell has tolled a requiem for all alike. +What mattered it, whether or no there were a silver scutcheon on the +coffin-lid? "Open thy bosom, Mother Earth!" Thus spake the bell. +"Another of thy children is coming to his long rest. Take him to thy +bosom, and let him slumber in peace." Thus spake the bell, and Mother +Earth received her child. With the self-same tones will the present +generation be ushered to the embraces of their mother; and Mother Earth +will still receive her children. Is not thy tongue a-weary, mournful +talker of two centuries? O funeral bell! wilt thou never be shattered +with thine own melancholy strokes? Yea, and a trumpet-call shall arouse +the sleepers, whom thy heavy clang could awake no more! + +Again--again thy voice, reminding me that I am wasting the "midnight +oil." In my lonely fantasy, I can scarce believe that other mortals have +caught the sound, or that it vibrates elsewhere than in my secret soul. +But to many hast thou spoken. Anxious men have heard thee on their +sleepless pillows, and bethought themselves anew of to-morrow's care. In +a brief interval of wakefulness, the sons of toil have heard thee, and +say, "Is so much of our quiet slumber spent?--is the morning so near at +hand?" Crime has heard thee, and mutters, "Now is the very hour!" +Despair answers thee, "Thus much of this weary life is gone!" The young +mother, on her bed of pain and ecstasy, has counted thy echoing strokes, +and dates from them her first-born's share of life and immortality. The +bridegroom and the bride have listened, and feel that their night of +rapture flits like a dream away. 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