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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. 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 *** +By Nathaniel Hawthorne + +**** This file should be named haw6410.txt or haw6410.zip **** + +Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, haw6411.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, haw6410a.txt + +This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net] + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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