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+
+
+
+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!
+
+
+
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