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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: Time's Portraiture + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + + +Release Date: November, 2005 [EBook #9252] +First Posted: September 25, 2003 +Last Updated: April 3, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME'S PORTRAITURE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger and Al Haines. + + + + + +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h4> + THE DOLIVER ROMANCE AND OTHER PIECES<br /> + </h4> + <h4> + TALES AND SKETCHES<br /> + </h4> + <h3> + By Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /> + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h2> + TIME'S PORTRAITURE<br /> + </h2> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <p class="noindent"> + Being the Carrier's Address to the Patrons of "The Salem Gazette" for the + 1st of January, 1838. + </p> + <p class="noindent"> + ADDRESS. + </p> + <p> + Kind Patrons:—-We newspaper carriers are Time's errand-boys; and all + the year round, the old gentleman sends us from one of your doors to + another, to let you know what he is talking about and what he is doing. We + are a strange set of urchins; for, punctually on New Year's morning, one + and all of us are seized with a fit of rhyme, and break forth in such + hideous strains, that it would be no wonder if the infant Year, with her + step upon the threshold, were frightened away by the discord with which we + strive to welcome her. On these occasions, most generous patrons, you + never fail to give us a taste of your bounty; but whether as a reward for + our verses, or to purchase a respite from further infliction of them, is + best known to your worshipful selves. Moreover, we, Time's errand-boys as + aforesaid, feel it incumbent upon us, on the first day of every year, to + present a sort of summary of our master's dealings with the world, + throughout the whole of the preceding twelvemonth. Now it has so chanced + by a misfortune heretofore unheard of, that I, your present petitioner, + have been altogether forgotten by the Muse. Instead of being able (as I + naturally expected) to measure my ideas into six-foot lilies, and tack a + rhyme at each of their tails, I find myself, this blessed morning, the + same simple proser that I was yesterday, and shall probably be to-morrow. + And to my further mortification, being a humble-minded little sinner, I + feel no wise capable of talking to your worships with the customary wisdom + of my brethren, and giving sage opinions as to what Time has done right, + and what he has done wrong, and what of right or wrong he means to do + hereafter. Such being my unhappy predicament, it is with no small + confusion of face, that I make bold to present myself at your doors. Yet + it were surely a pity that my non-appearance should defeat your bountiful + designs for the replenishing of my pockets. Wherefore I have bethought me, + that it might not displease your worships to hear a few particulars about + the person and habits of Father Time, with whom, as being one of his + errand-boys, I have more acquaintance than most lads of my years. + </p> + <p> + For a great many years past, there has been a woodcut on the cover of the + "Farmer's Almanac," pretending to be a portrait of Father Time. It + represents that respectable personage as almost in a state of nudity, with + a single lock of hair on his forehead, wings on his shoulders, and + accoutred with a scythe and an hour-glass. These two latter symbols appear + to betoken that the old fellow works in haying time, by the hour. But, + within my recollection, Time has never carried a scythe and an hour-glass, + nor worn a pair of wings, nor shown himself in the half-naked condition + that the almanac would make us believe. Nowadays, he is the most + fashionably dressed figure about town; and I take it to be his natural + disposition, old as he is, to adopt every fashion of the day and of the + hour. Just at the present period, you may meet him in a furred surtout, + with pantaloons strapped under his narrow-toed boots; on his head, instead + of a single forelock, he wears a smart auburn wig, with bushy whiskers of + the same hue, the whole surmounted by a German-lustre hat. He has + exchanged his hour-glass for a gold patent-lever watch, which he carries + in his vest-pocket; and as for his scythe, he has either thrown it aside + altogether, or converted its handle into a cane not much stouter than a + riding-switch. If you stare him full in the face, you will perhaps detect + a few wrinkles; but, on a hasty glance, you might suppose him to be in the + very heyday of life, as fresh as he was in the garden of Eden. So much for + the present aspect of Time; but I by no means insure that the description + shall suit him a month hence, or even at this hour tomorrow. + </p> + <p> + It is another very common mistake, to suppose that Time wanders among old + ruins, and sits on mouldering walls and moss-grown stones, meditating + about matters which everybody else has forgotten. Some people, perhaps, + would expect to find him at the burial-ground in Broad Street, poring over + the half-illegible inscriptions on the tombs of the Higginsons, the + Hathornes,—[Not "Hawthorne," as one of the present representatives + of the family has seen fit to transmogrify a good old name.]—the + Holyokes, the Brownes, the Olivers, the Pickmans, the Pickerings, and + other worthies, with whom he kept company of old. Some would look for him + on the ridge of Gallows Hill, where, in one of his darkest moods, he and + Cotton Mather hung the witches. But they need not seek him there. Time is + invariably the first to forget his own deeds, his own history, and his own + former associates. His place is in the busiest bustle of the world. If you + would meet Time face to face, you have only to promenade in Essex Street, + between the hours of twelve and one; and there, among beaux and belles, + you will see old Father Time, apparently the gayest of the gay. He walks + arm in arm with the young men, talking about balls and theatres, and + afternoon rides, and midnight merry-makings; he recommends such and such a + fashionable tailor, and sneers at every garment of six months' antiquity; + and, generally, before parting, he invites his friends to drink champagne,—a + wine in which Time delights, on account of its rapid effervescence. And + Time treads lightly beside the fair girls, whispering to them (the old + deceiver!) that they are the sweetest angels he ever was acquainted with. + He tells them that they have nothing to do but dance and sing, and twine + roses in their hair, and gather a train of lovers, and that the world will + always be like an illuminated ball-room. And Time goes to the Commercial + News-Room, and visits the insurance-offices, and stands at the corner of + Essex and St. Peter's Streets, talking with the merchants. + </p> + <p> + However, Time seldom has occasion to mention the gentleman's name, so that + it is no great matter how he spells or pronounces it about the arrival of + ships, the rise and fall of stocks, the price of cotton and breadstuffs, + the prospects of the whaling-business, and the cod-fishery, and all other + news of the day. And the young gentlemen, and the pretty girls, and the + merchants, and all others with whom he makes acquaintance, are apt to + think that there is nobody like Time, and that Time is all in all. + </p> + <p> + But Time is not near so good a fellow as they take him for. He is + continually on the watch for mischief, and often seizes a sly opportunity + to lay his cane over the shoulders of some middle-aged gentleman; and lo + and behold! the poor man's back is bent, his hair turns gray, and his face + looks like a shrivelled apple. This is what is meant by being + "time-stricken." It is the worst feature in Time's character, that he + always inflicts the greatest injuries on his oldest friends. Yet, + shamefully as he treats them, they evince no desire to cut his + acquaintance, and can seldom bear to think of a final separation. + </p> + <p> + Again, there is a very prevalent idea, that Time loves to sit by the + fireside, telling stories of the Puritans, the witch persecutors, and the + heroes of the old French war and the Revolution; and that he has no memory + for anything more recent than the days of the first President Adams. This + is another great mistake. Time is so eager to talk of novelties, that he + never fails to give circulation to the most incredible rumors of the day, + though at the hazard of being compelled to eat his own words to-morrow. He + shows numberless instances of this propensity while the national elections + are in progress. A month ago, his mouth was full of the wonderful Whig + victories; and to do him justice, he really seems to have told the truth + for once. Whether the same story will hold good another year, we must + leave Time himself to show. He has a good deal to say, at the present + juncture, concerning the revolutionary movements in Canada; he blusters a + little about the northeastern boundary question; he expresses great + impatience at the sluggishness of our commanders in the Florida war; he + gets considerably excited whenever the subject of abolition is brought + forward, and so much the more, as he appears hardly to have made up his + mind on one side or the other. Whenever this happens to be the case,—as + it often does,—Time works himself into such a rage, that you would + think he were going to tear the universe to pieces; but I never yet knew + him to proceed, in good earnest, to such terrible extremities. During the + last six or seven months, he has been seized with intolerable sulkiness at + the slightest mention of the currency; for nothing vexes Time so much as + to be refused cash upon the nail. The above are the chief topics of + general interest which Time is just now in the habit of discussing. For + his more private gossip, he has rumors of new matches, of old ones broken + off, with now and then a whisper of good-natured scandal; sometimes, too, + he condescends to criticise a sermon, or a lyceum lecture, or performance + of the glee-club; and, to be brief, catch the volatile essence of present + talk and transitory opinions, and you will have Time's gossip, word for + word. I may as well add, that he expresses great approbation of Mr. + Russell's vocal abilities, and means to be present from beginning to end + of his next concert. It is not every singer that could keep Time with his + voice and instrument, for a whole evening. Perhaps you will inquire, "What + are Time's literary tastes?" And here again there is a general mistake. It + is conceived by many, that Time spends his leisure hours at the Athenaeum, + turning over the musty leaves of those large worm-eaten folios, which + nobody else has disturbed since the death of the venerable Dr. Oliver. So + far from this being the case, Time's profoundest studies are the new + novels from Messrs. Ives and Jewett's Circulating Library. He skims over + the lighter articles in the periodicals of the day, glances at the + newspapers, and then throws them aside forever, all except "The Salem + Gazette," of which he preserves a file, for his amusement a century or two + hence. + </p> + <p> + We will now consider Time as a man of business. In this capacity, our + citizens are in the habit of complaining, not wholly without reason, that + Time is sluggish and dull. You may see him occasionally at the end of + Derby Wharf, leaning against a post, or sitting on the breech of an iron + cannon, staring listlessly at an unrigged East Indiaman. Or, if you look + through the windows of the Union Marine Insurance Office, you may get a + glimpse of him there, nodding over a newspaper, among the old + weather-beaten sea-captains who recollect when Time was quite a different + sort of fellow. If you enter any of the dry-goods stores along Essex + Street, you will be likely to find him with his elbows on the counter, + bargaining for a yard of tape or a paper of pins. To catch him in his + idlest mood, you must visit the office of some young lawyer. Still, + however, Time does contrive to do a little business among us, and should + not be denied the credit of it. During the past season, he has worked + pretty diligently upon the railroad, and promises to start the cars by the + middle of next summer. Then we may fly from Essex Street to State Street, + and be back again before Time misses us. In conjunction with our worthy + mayor (with whose ancestor, the Lord Mayor of London, Time was well + acquainted more than two hundred years ago) he has laid the corner-stone + of a new city hall, the granite front of which is already an ornament to + Court Street. But besides these public affairs, Time busies himself a good + deal in private. Just at this season of the year, he is engaged in + collecting bills, and may be seen at almost any hour peregrinating from + street to street, and knocking at half the doors in town, with a great + bundle of these infernal documents. On such errands he appears in the + likeness of an undersized, portly old gentleman, with gray hair, a bluff + red face, and a loud tone of voice; and many people mistake him for the + penny-post. + </p> + <p> + Never does a marriage take place, but Time is present among the + wedding-guests; for marriage is an affair in which Time takes more + interest than in almost any other. He generally gives away the bride, and + leads the bridegroom by the hand to the threshold of the bridal chamber. + Although Time pretends to be very merry on these occasions, yet, if you + watch him well, you may often detect a sigh. Whenever a babe is born into + this weary world, Time is in attendance, and receives the wailing infant + in his arms. And the poor babe shudders instinctively at his embrace, and + sets up a feeble cry. + </p> + <p> + Then again, from the birth-chamber, he must hurry to the bedside of some + old acquaintance, whose business with Time is ended forever, though their + accounts remain to be settled at a future day. It is terrible, sometimes, + to perceive the lingering reluctance, the shivering agony, with which the + poor souls bid Time farewell, if they have gained no other friend to + supply the gray deceiver's place. How do they cling to Time, and steal + another and yet another glance at his familiar aspect! But Time, the + hard-hearted old fellow! goes through such scenes with infinite composure, + and dismisses his best friends from memory the moment they are out of + sight. Others, who have not been too intimate with Time, as knowing him to + be a dangerous character, and apt to ruin his associates,—these take + leave of him with joy, and pass away with a look of triumph on their + features. They know, that, in spite of all his flattering promises, he + could not make them happy, but that now they shall be so, long after Time + is dead and buried. + </p> + <p> + For Time is not immortal. Time must die, and be buried in the deep grave + of eternity. And let him die. From the hour when he passed forth through + the gate of Eden, till this very moment, he has gone to and fro about the + earth, staining his hands with blood, committing crimes innumerable, and + bringing misery on himself and all mankind. Sometimes he has been a pagan; + sometimes a persecutor. Sometimes he has spent centuries in darkness, + where he could neither read nor write. These were called the Dark Ages. + There has hardly been a single year, when he has not stirred up strife + among the nations. Sometimes, as in France less than fifty years ago, he + has been seized with fits of frenzy, and murdered thousands of innocent + people at noonday. He pretends, indeed, that he has grown wiser and better + now. Trust him who will; for my part, I rejoice that Time shall not live + forever. He hath an appointed office to perform. Let him do his task, and + die. Fresh and young as he would make himself appear, he is already hoary + with age; and the very garments that he wears about the town were put on + thousands of years ago, and have been patched and pieced to suit the + present fashion. There is nothing new in him nor about him. Were he to die + while I am speaking, we could not pronounce it an untimely death. + Methinks, with his heavy heart and weary brain, Time should himself be + glad to die. + </p> + <p> + Meanwhile, gentle patrons, as Time has brought round another New Year, + pray remember your poor petitioner. For so small a lad, you will agree + that I talk pretty passably well, and have fairly earned whatever spare + specie Time has left in your pockets. Be kind to me; and I have good hope + that Time will be kind to you. After all the hard things which I have said + about him, he is really,—that is, if you take him for neither more + nor less than he is worth, and use him as not abusing him,—Time is + really a very tolerable old fellow, and may be endured for a little while + that we are to keep him company. Be generous, kind patrons, to Time's + errand-boy. So may he bring to the merchant his ship safe from the Indies; + to the lawyer, a goodly number of new suits; to the doctor, a crowd of + patients with the dyspepsia and fat purses; to the farmer, a golden crop + and a ready market; to the mechanic, steady employment and good wages; to + the idle gentleman, some honest business; to the rich, kind hearts and + liberal hands; to the poor, warm firesides and food enough, patient + spirits, and the hope of better days; to our country, a return of specie + payments; and to you, sweet maid, the youth who stole into your dream last + night! And next New Year's Day (if I find nothing better to do in the mean + while) may Time again bring to your doors your loving little friend,<br /><br /> + THE CARRIER.<br /> + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Time's Portraiture, by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME'S PORTRAITURE *** + +***** This file should be named 9252-h.htm or 9252-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/5/9252/ + +Produced by David Widger and Al Haines. + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions 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: Time's Portraiture + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Posting Date: December 23, 2010 [EBook #9252] +Release Date: November, 2005 +First Posted: September 25, 2003 +Last Updated: February 8, 2007 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME'S PORTRAITURE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines. + + + + + + + + + + THE DOLIVER ROMANCE AND OTHER PIECES + + TALES AND SKETCHES + + By Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + TIME'S PORTRAITURE + + + +Being the Carrier's Address to the Patrons of "The Salem Gazette" for +the 1st of January, 1838. + +ADDRESS. + +Kind Patrons:---We newspaper carriers are Time's errand-boys; and all +the year round, the old gentleman sends us from one of your doors to +another, to let you know what he is talking about and what he is doing. +We are a strange set of urchins; for, punctually on New Year's morning, +one and all of us are seized with a fit of rhyme, and break forth in such +hideous strains, that it would be no wonder if the infant Year, with her +step upon the threshold, were frightened away by the discord with which +we strive to welcome her. On these occasions, most generous patrons, +you never fail to give us a taste of your bounty; but whether as a +reward for our verses, or to purchase a respite from further infliction +of them, is best known to your worshipful selves. Moreover, we, Time's +errand-boys as aforesaid, feel it incumbent upon us, on the first day of +every year, to present a sort of summary of our master's dealings with +the world, throughout the whole of the preceding twelvemonth. Now it +has so chanced by a misfortune heretofore unheard of, that I, your +present petitioner, have been altogether forgotten by the Muse. Instead +of being able (as I naturally expected) to measure my ideas into +six-foot lilies, and tack a rhyme at each of their tails, I find myself, +this blessed morning, the same simple proser that I was yesterday, and +shall probably be to-morrow. And to my further mortification, being a +humble-minded little sinner, I feel no wise capable of talking to your +worships with the customary wisdom of my brethren, and giving sage +opinions as to what Time has done right, and what he has done wrong, and +what of right or wrong he means to do hereafter. Such being my unhappy +predicament, it is with no small confusion of face, that I make bold to +present myself at your doors. Yet it were surely a pity that my +non-appearance should defeat your bountiful designs for the replenishing of +my pockets. Wherefore I have bethought me, that it might not displease +your worships to hear a few particulars about the person and habits of +Father Time, with whom, as being one of his errand-boys, I have more +acquaintance than most lads of my years. + +For a great many years past, there has been a woodcut on the cover of +the "Farmer's Almanac," pretending to be a portrait of Father Time. It +represents that respectable personage as almost in a state of nudity, +with a single lock of hair on his forehead, wings on his shoulders, and +accoutred with a scythe and an hour-glass. These two latter symbols +appear to betoken that the old fellow works in haying time, by the hour. +But, within my recollection, Time has never carried a scythe and an +hour-glass, nor worn a pair of wings, nor shown himself in the half-naked +condition that the almanac would make us believe. Nowadays, he is +the most fashionably dressed figure about town; and I take it to be his +natural disposition, old as he is, to adopt every fashion of the day and +of the hour. Just at the present period, you may meet him in a furred +surtout, with pantaloons strapped under his narrow-toed boots; on his +head, instead of a single forelock, he wears a smart auburn wig, with +bushy whiskers of the same hue, the whole surmounted by a German-lustre +hat. He has exchanged his hour-glass for a gold patent-lever watch, +which he carries in his vest-pocket; and as for his scythe, he has +either thrown it aside altogether, or converted its handle into a cane +not much stouter than a riding-switch. If you stare him full in the +face, you will perhaps detect a few wrinkles; but, on a hasty glance, +you might suppose him to be in the very heyday of life, as fresh as he +was in the garden of Eden. So much for the present aspect of Time; but +I by no means insure that the description shall suit him a month hence, +or even at this hour tomorrow. + +It is another very common mistake, to suppose that Time wanders among +old ruins, and sits on mouldering walls and moss-grown stones, +meditating about matters which everybody else has forgotten. Some +people, perhaps, would expect to find him at the burial-ground in Broad +Street, poring over the half-illegible inscriptions on the tombs of the +Higginsons, the Hathornes,--[Not "Hawthorne," as one of the present +representatives of the family has seen fit to transmogrify a good old +name.]--the Holyokes, the Brownes, the Olivers, the Pickmans, the +Pickerings, and other worthies, with whom he kept company of old. Some +would look for him on the ridge of Gallows Hill, where, in one of his +darkest moods, he and Cotton Mather hung the witches. But they need not +seek him there. Time is invariably the first to forget his own deeds, +his own history, and his own former associates. His place is in the +busiest bustle of the world. If you would meet Time face to face, you +have only to promenade in Essex Street, between the hours of twelve and +one; and there, among beaux and belles, you will see old Father Time, +apparently the gayest of the gay. He walks arm in arm with the young +men, talking about balls and theatres, and afternoon rides, and midnight +merry-makings; he recommends such and such a fashionable tailor, and +sneers at every garment of six months' antiquity; and, generally, before +parting, he invites his friends to drink champagne,--a wine in which +Time delights, on account of its rapid effervescence. And Time treads +lightly beside the fair girls, whispering to them (the old deceiver!) +that they are the sweetest angels he ever was acquainted with. He tells +them that they have nothing to do but dance and sing, and twine roses in +their hair, and gather a train of lovers, and that the world will always +be like an illuminated ball-room. And Time goes to the Commercial +News-Room, and visits the insurance-offices, and stands at the corner of +Essex and St. Peter's Streets, talking with the merchants. + +However, Time seldom has occasion to mention the gentleman's name, so +that it is no great matter how he spells or pronounces it about the +arrival of ships, the rise and fall of stocks, the price of cotton and +breadstuffs, the prospects of the whaling-business, and the cod-fishery, +and all other news of the day. And the young gentlemen, and the pretty +girls, and the merchants, and all others with whom he makes +acquaintance, are apt to think that there is nobody like Time, +and that Time is all in all. + +But Time is not near so good a fellow as they take him for. He is +continually on the watch for mischief, and often seizes a sly +opportunity to lay his cane over the shoulders of some middle-aged +gentleman; and lo and behold! the poor man's back is bent, his hair +turns gray, and his face looks like a shrivelled apple. This is what is +meant by being "time-stricken." It is the worst feature in Time's +character, that he always inflicts the greatest injuries on his oldest +friends. Yet, shamefully as he treats them, they evince no desire to +cut his acquaintance, and can seldom bear to think of a final +separation. + +Again, there is a very prevalent idea, that Time loves to sit by the +fireside, telling stories of the Puritans, the witch persecutors, and +the heroes of the old French war and the Revolution; and that he has no +memory for anything more recent than the days of the first President +Adams. This is another great mistake. Time is so eager to talk of +novelties, that he never fails to give circulation to the most +incredible rumors of the day, though at the hazard of being compelled to +eat his own words to-morrow. He shows numberless instances of this +propensity while the national elections are in progress. A month ago, +his mouth was full of the wonderful Whig victories; and to do him +justice, he really seems to have told the truth for once. Whether the +same story will hold good another year, we must leave Time himself to +show. He has a good deal to say, at the present juncture, concerning +the revolutionary movements in Canada; he blusters a little about the +northeastern boundary question; he expresses great impatience at the +sluggishness of our commanders in the Florida war; he gets considerably +excited whenever the subject of abolition is brought forward, and so +much the more, as he appears hardly to have made up his mind on one side +or the other. Whenever this happens to be the case,--as it often +does,--Time works himself into such a rage, that you would think he were +going to tear the universe to pieces; but I never yet knew him to +proceed, in good earnest, to such terrible extremities. During the last +six or seven months, he has been seized with intolerable sulkiness at +the slightest mention of the currency; for nothing vexes Time so much as +to be refused cash upon the nail. The above are the chief topics of +general interest which Time is just now in the habit of discussing. +For his more private gossip, he has rumors of new matches, of old ones +broken off, with now and then a whisper of good-natured scandal; +sometimes, too, he condescends to criticise a sermon, or a lyceum +lecture, or performance of the glee-club; and, to be brief, catch the +volatile essence of present talk and transitory opinions, and you will +have Time's gossip, word for word. I may as well add, that he expresses +great approbation of Mr. Russell's vocal abilities, and means to be +present from beginning to end of his next concert. It is not every +singer that could keep Time with his voice and instrument, for a whole +evening. Perhaps you will inquire, "What are Time's literary tastes?" +And here again there is a general mistake. It is conceived by many, +that Time spends his leisure hours at the Athenaeum, turning over the +musty leaves of those large worm-eaten folios, which nobody else has +disturbed since the death of the venerable Dr. Oliver. So far from this +being the case, Time's profoundest studies are the new novels from +Messrs. Ives and Jewett's Circulating Library. He skims over the +lighter articles in the periodicals of the day, glances at the +newspapers, and then throws them aside forever, all except "The Salem +Gazette," of which he preserves a file, for his amusement a century or +two hence. + +We will now consider Time as a man of business. In this capacity, our +citizens are in the habit of complaining, not wholly without reason, +that Time is sluggish and dull. You may see him occasionally at the end +of Derby Wharf, leaning against a post, or sitting on the breech of an +iron cannon, staring listlessly at an unrigged East Indiaman. Or, if +you look through the windows of the Union Marine Insurance Office, you +may get a glimpse of him there, nodding over a newspaper, among the old +weather-beaten sea-captains who recollect when Time was quite a +different sort of fellow. If you enter any of the dry-goods stores +along Essex Street, you will be likely to find him with his elbows on +the counter, bargaining for a yard of tape or a paper of pins. To catch +him in his idlest mood, you must visit the office of some young lawyer. +Still, however, Time does contrive to do a little business among us, and +should not be denied the credit of it. During the past season, he has +worked pretty diligently upon the railroad, and promises to start the +cars by the middle of next summer. Then we may fly from Essex Street to +State Street, and be back again before Time misses us. In conjunction +with our worthy mayor (with whose ancestor, the Lord Mayor of London, +Time was well acquainted more than two hundred years ago) he has laid +the corner-stone of a new city hall, the granite front of which is +already an ornament to Court Street. But besides these public affairs, +Time busies himself a good deal in private. Just at this season of the +year, he is engaged in collecting bills, and may be seen at almost any +hour peregrinating from street to street, and knocking at half the doors +in town, with a great bundle of these infernal documents. On such +errands he appears in the likeness of an undersized, portly old +gentleman, with gray hair, a bluff red face, and a loud tone of voice; +and many people mistake him for the penny-post. + +Never does a marriage take place, but Time is present among the +wedding-guests; for marriage is an affair in which Time takes more +interest than in almost any other. He generally gives away the bride, +and leads the bridegroom by the hand to the threshold of the bridal +chamber. Although Time pretends to be very merry on these occasions, +yet, if you watch him well, you may often detect a sigh. Whenever a babe +is born into this weary world, Time is in attendance, and receives the +wailing infant in his arms. And the poor babe shudders instinctively at +his embrace, and sets up a feeble cry. + +Then again, from the birth-chamber, he must hurry to the bedside of some +old acquaintance, whose business with Time is ended forever, though +their accounts remain to be settled at a future day. It is terrible, +sometimes, to perceive the lingering reluctance, the shivering agony, +with which the poor souls bid Time farewell, if they have gained no +other friend to supply the gray deceiver's place. How do they cling to +Time, and steal another and yet another glance at his familiar aspect! +But Time, the hard-hearted old fellow! goes through such scenes with +infinite composure, and dismisses his best friends from memory the +moment they are out of sight. Others, who have not been too intimate +with Time, as knowing him to be a dangerous character, and apt to ruin +his associates,--these take leave of him with joy, and pass away with a +look of triumph on their features. They know, that, in spite of all his +flattering promises, he could not make them happy, but that now they +shall be so, long after Time is dead and buried. + +For Time is not immortal. Time must die, and be buried in the deep +grave of eternity. And let him die. From the hour when he passed forth +through the gate of Eden, till this very moment, he has gone to and fro +about the earth, staining his hands with blood, committing crimes +innumerable, and bringing misery on himself and all mankind. Sometimes +he has been a pagan; sometimes a persecutor. Sometimes he has spent +centuries in darkness, where he could neither read nor write. These +were called the Dark Ages. There has hardly been a single year, when he +has not stirred up strife among the nations. Sometimes, as in France +less than fifty years ago, he has been seized with fits of frenzy, and +murdered thousands of innocent people at noonday. He pretends, indeed, +that he has grown wiser and better now. Trust him who will; for my +part, I rejoice that Time shall not live forever. He hath an appointed +office to perform. Let him do his task, and die. Fresh and young as he +would make himself appear, he is already hoary with age; and the very +garments that he wears about the town were put on thousands of years +ago, and have been patched and pieced to suit the present fashion. +There is nothing new in him nor about him. Were he to die while I am +speaking, we could not pronounce it an untimely death. Methinks, with +his heavy heart and weary brain, Time should himself be glad to die. + +Meanwhile, gentle patrons, as Time has brought round another New Year, +pray remember your poor petitioner. For so small a lad, you will agree +that I talk pretty passably well, and have fairly earned whatever spare +specie Time has left in your pockets. Be kind to me; and I have good +hope that Time will be kind to you. After all the hard things which I +have said about him, he is really,--that is, if you take him for neither +more nor less than he is worth, and use him as not abusing him,--Time is +really a very tolerable old fellow, and may be endured for a little +while that we are to keep him company. Be generous, kind patrons, to +Time's errand-boy. So may he bring to the merchant his ship safe from +the Indies; to the lawyer, a goodly number of new suits; to the doctor, +a crowd of patients with the dyspepsia and fat purses; to the farmer, a +golden crop and a ready market; to the mechanic, steady employment and +good wages; to the idle gentleman, some honest business; to the rich, +kind hearts and liberal hands; to the poor, warm firesides and food +enough, patient spirits, and the hope of better days; to our country, a +return of specie payments; and to you, sweet maid, the youth who stole +into your dream last night! And next New Year's Day (if I find nothing +better to do in the mean while) may Time again bring to your doors your +loving little friend, + THE CARRIER. + + + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Time's Portraiture, by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME'S PORTRAITURE *** + +***** This file should be named 9252.txt or 9252.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/5/9252/ + +Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines. + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions 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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On these occasions, most generous patrons, +you never fail to give us a taste of your bounty; but whether as a +reward for our verses, or to purchase a respite from further infliction +of them, is best known to your worshipful selves. Moreover, we, Time's +errand-boys as aforesaid, feel it incumbent upon us, on the first day of +every year, to present a sort of summary of our master's dealings with +the world, throughout the whole of the preceding twelvemonth. Now it +has so chanced by a misfortune heretofore unheard of, that I, your +present petitioner, have been altogether forgotten by the Muse. Instead +of being able (as I naturally expected) to measure my ideas into six- +foot lilies, and tack a rhyme at each of their tails, I find myself, +this blessed morning, the same simple proser that I was yesterday, and +shall probably be to-morrow. And to my further mortification, being a +humble-minded little sinner, I feel no wise capable of talking to your +worships with the customary wisdom of my brethren, and giving sage +opinions as to what Time has done right, and what he has done wrong, and +what of right or wrong he means to do hereafter. Such being my unhappy +predicament, it is with no small confusion of face, that I make bold to +present myself at your doors. Yet it were surely a pity that my non- +appearance should defeat your bountiful designs for the replenishing of +my pockets. Wherefore I have bethought me, that it might not displease +your worships to hear a few particulars about the person and habits of +Father Time, with whom, as being one of his errand-boys, I have more +acquaintance than most lads of my years. + +For a great many years past, there has been a woodcut on the cover of +the "Farmer's Almanac," pretending to be a portrait of Father Time. It +represents that respectable personage as almost in a state of nudity, +with a single lock of hair on his forehead, wings on his shoulders, and +accoutred with a scythe and an hour-glass. These two latter symbols +appear to betoken that the old fellow works in haying time, by the hour. +But, within my recollection, Time has never carried a scythe and an +hour-glass, nor worn a pair of wings, nor shown himself in the half- +naked condition that the almanac would make us believe. Nowadays, he is +the most fashionably dressed figure about town; and I take it to be his +natural disposition, old as he is, to adopt every fashion of the day and +of the hour. Just at the present period, you may meet him in a furred +surtout, with pantaloons strapped under his narrow-toed boots; on his +head, instead of a single forelock, he wears a smart auburn wig, with +bushy whiskers of the same hue, the whole surmounted by a German-lustre +hat. He has exchanged his hour-glass for a gold patent-lever watch, +which he carries in his vest-pocket; and as for his scythe, he has +either thrown it aside altogether, or converted its handle into a cane +not much stouter than a riding-switch. If you stare him full in the +face, you will perhaps detect a few wrinkles; but, on a hasty glance, +you might suppose him to be in the very heyday of life, as fresh as he +was in the garden of Eden. So much for the present aspect of Time; but +I by no means insure that the description shall suit him a month hence, +or even at this hour tomorrow. + +It is another very common mistake, to suppose that Time wanders among +old ruins, and sits on mouldering walls and moss-grown stones, +meditating about matters which everybody else has forgotten. Some +people, perhaps, would expect to find him at the burial-ground in Broad +Street, poring over the half-illegible inscriptions on the tombs of the +Higginsons, the Hathornes,--[Not "Hawthorne," as one of the present +representatives of the family has seen fit to transmogrify a good old +name.]--the Holyokes, the Brownes, the Olivers, the Pickmans, the +Pickerings, and other worthies, with whom he kept company of old. Some +would look for him on the ridge of Gallows Hill, where, in one of his +darkest moods, he and Cotton Mather hung the witches. But they need not +seek him there. Time is invariably the first to forget his own deeds, +his own history, and his own former associates. His place is in the +busiest bustle of the world. If you would meet Time face to face, you +have only to promenade in Essex Street, between the hours of twelve and +one; and there, among beaux and belles, you will see old Father Time, +apparently the gayest of the gay. He walks arm in arm with the young +men, talking about balls and theatres, and afternoon rides, and midnight +merry-makings; he recommends such and such a fashionable tailor, and +sneers at every garment of six months' antiquity; and, generally, before +parting, he invites his friends to drink champagne,--a wine in which +Time delights, on account of its rapid effervescence. And Time treads +lightly beside the fair girls, whispering to them (the old deceiver!) +that they are the sweetest angels he ever was acquainted with. He tells +them that they have nothing to do but dance and sing, and twine roses in +their hair, and gather a train of lovers, and that the world will always +be like an illuminated ball-room. And Time goes to the Commercial News- +Room, and visits the insurance-offices, and stands at the corner of +Essex and St. Peter's Streets, talking with the merchants. + +However, Time seldom has occasion to mention the gentleman's name, so +that it is no great matter how he spells or pronounces it about the +arrival of ships, the rise and fall of stocks, the price of cotton and +breadstuffs, the prospects of the whaling-business, and the cod-fishery, +and all other news of the day. And the young gentlemen, and the pretty +girls, and the merchants, and all others with whom he makes +acquaintance, are apt to think that there is nobody like Time, +and that Time is all in all. + +But Time is not near so good a fellow as they take him for. He is +continually on the watch for mischief, and often seizes a sly +opportunity to lay his cane over the shoulders of some middle-aged +gentleman; and lo and behold! the poor man's back is bent, his hair +turns gray, and his face looks like a shrivelled apple. This is what is +meant by being "time-stricken." It is the worst feature in Time's +character, that he always inflicts the greatest injuries on his oldest +friends. Yet, shamefully as he treats them, they evince no desire to +cut his acquaintance, and can seldom bear to think of a final +separation. + +Again, there is a very prevalent idea, that Time loves to sit by the +fireside, telling stories of the Puritans, the witch persecutors, and +the heroes of the old French war and the Revolution; and that he has no +memory for anything more recent than the days of the first President +Adams. This is another great mistake. Time is so eager to talk of +novelties, that he never fails to give circulation to the most +incredible rumors of the day, though at the hazard of being compelled to +eat his own words to-morrow. He shows numberless instances of this +propensity while the national elections are in progress. A month ago, +his mouth was full of the wonderful Whig victories; and to do him +justice, he really seems to have told the truth for once. Whether the +same story will hold good another year, we must leave Time himself to +show. He has a good deal to say, at the present juncture, concerning +the revolutionary movements in Canada; he blusters a little about the +northeastern boundary question; he expresses great impatience at the +sluggishness of our commanders in the Florida war; he gets considerably +excited whenever the subject of abolition is brought forward, and so +much the more, as he appears hardly to have made up his mind on one side +or the other. Whenever this happens to be the case,--as it often does, +--Time works himself into such a rage, that you would think he were +going to tear the universe to pieces; but I never yet knew him to +proceed, in good earnest, to such terrible extremities. During the last +six or seven months, he has been seized with intolerable sulkiness at +the slightest mention of the currency; for nothing vexes Time so much as +to be refused cash upon the nail. The above are the chief topics of +general interest which Time is just now in the habit of discussing. +For his more private gossip, he has rumors of new matches, of old ones +broken off, with now and then a whisper of good-natured scandal; +sometimes, too, he condescends to criticise a sermon, or a lyceum +lecture, or performance of the glee-club; and, to be brief, catch the +volatile essence of present talk and transitory opinions, and you will +have Time's gossip, word for word. I may as well add, that he expresses +great approbation of Mr. Russell's vocal abilities, and means to be +present from beginning to end of his next concert. It is not every +singer that could keep Time with his voice and instrument, for a whole +evening. Perhaps you will inquire, "What are Time's literary tastes?" +And here again there is a general mistake. It is conceived by many, +that Time spends his leisure hours at the Athenaeum, turning over the +musty leaves of those large worm-eaten folios, which nobody else has +disturbed since the death of the venerable Dr. Oliver. So far from this +being the case, Time's profoundest studies are the new novels from +Messrs. Ives and Jewett's Circulating Library. He skims over the +lighter articles in the periodicals of the day, glances at the +newspapers, and then throws them aside forever, all except "The Salem +Gazette," of which he preserves a file, for his amusement a century or +two hence. + +We will now consider Time as a man of business. In this capacity, our +citizens are in the habit of complaining, not wholly without reason, +that Time is sluggish and dull. You may see him occasionally at the end +of Derby Wharf, leaning against a post, or sitting on the breech of an +iron cannon, staring listlessly at an unrigged East Indiaman. Or, if +you look through the windows of the Union Marine Insurance Office, you +may get a glimpse of him there, nodding over a newspaper, among the old +weather-beaten sea-captains who recollect when Time was quite a +different sort of fellow. If you enter any of the dry-goods stores +along Essex Street, you will be likely to find him with his elbows on +the counter, bargaining for a yard of tape or a paper of pins. To catch +him in his idlest mood, you must visit the office of some young lawyer. +Still, however, Time does contrive to do a little business among us, and +should not be denied the credit of it. During the past season, he has +worked pretty diligently upon the railroad, and promises to start the +cars by the middle of next summer. Then we may fly from Essex Street to +State Street, and be back again before Time misses us. In conjunction +with our worthy mayor (with whose ancestor, the Lord Mayor of London, +Time was well acquainted more than two hundred years ago) he has laid +the corner-stone of a new city hall, the granite front of which is +already an ornament to Court Street. But besides these public affairs, +Time busies himself a good deal in private. Just at this season of the +year, he is engaged in collecting bills, and may be seen at almost any +hour peregrinating from street to street, and knocking at half the doors +in town, with a great bundle of these infernal documents. On such +errands he appears in the likeness of an undersized, portly old +gentleman, with gray hair, a bluff red face, and a loud tone of voice; +and many people mistake him for the penny-post. + +Never does a marriage take place, but Time is present among the wedding- +guests; for marriage is an affair in which Time takes more interest than +in almost any other. He generally gives away the bride, and leads the +bridegroom by the hand to the threshold of the bridal chamber. Although +Time pretends to be very merry on these occasions, yet, if you watch him +well, you may often detect a sigh. Whenever a babe is born into this +weary world, Time is in attendance, and receives the wailing infant in +his arms. And the poor babe shudders instinctively at his embrace, and +sets up a feeble cry. + +Then again, from the birth-chamber, he must hurry to the bedside of some +old acquaintance, whose business with Time is ended forever, though +their accounts remain to be settled at a future day. It is terrible, +sometimes, to perceive the lingering reluctance, the shivering agony, +with which the poor souls bid Time farewell, if they have gained no +other friend to supply the gray deceiver's place. How do they cling to +Time, and steal another and yet another glance at his familiar aspect! +But Time, the hard-hearted old fellow! goes through such scenes with +infinite composure, and dismisses his best friends from memory the +moment they are out of sight. Others, who have not been too intimate +with Time, as knowing him to be a dangerous character, and apt to ruin +his associates,--these take leave of him with joy, and pass away with a +look of triumph on their features. They know, that, in spite of all his +flattering promises, he could not make them happy, but that now they +shall be so, long after Time is dead and buried. + +For Time is not immortal. Time must die, and be buried in the deep +grave of eternity. And let him die. From the hour when he passed forth +through the gate of Eden, till this very moment, he has gone to and fro +about the earth, staining his hands with blood, committing crimes +innumerable, and bringing misery on himself and all mankind. Sometimes +he has been a pagan; sometimes a persecutor. Sometimes he has spent +centuries in darkness, where he could neither read nor write. These +were called the Dark Ages. There has hardly been a single year, when he +has not stirred up strife among the nations. Sometimes, as in France +less than fifty years ago, he has been seized with fits of frenzy, and +murdered thousands of innocent people at noonday. He pretends, indeed, +that he has grown wiser and better now. Trust him who will; for my +part, I rejoice that Time shall not live forever. He hath an appointed +office to perform. Let him do his task, and die. Fresh and young as he +would make himself appear, he is already hoary with age; and the very +garments that he wears about the town were put on thousands of years +ago, and have been patched and pieced to suit the present fashion. +There is nothing new in him nor about him. Were he to die while I am +speaking, we could not pronounce it an untimely death. Methinks, with +his heavy heart and weary brain, Time should himself be glad to die. + +Meanwhile, gentle patrons, as Time has brought round another New Year, +pray remember your poor petitioner. For so small a lad, you will agree +that I talk pretty passably well, and have fairly earned whatever spare +specie Time has left in your pockets. Be kind to me; and I have good +hope that Time will be kind to you. After all the hard things which I +have said about him, he is really,--that is, if you take him for neither +more nor less than he is worth, and use him as not abusing him,--Time is +really a very tolerable old fellow, and may be endured for a little +while that we are to keep him company. Be generous, kind patrons, to +Time's errand-boy. So may he bring to the merchant his ship safe from +the Indies; to the lawyer, a goodly number of new suits; to the doctor, +a crowd of patients with the dyspepsia and fat purses; to the farmer, a +golden crop and a ready market; to the mechanic, steady employment and +good wages; to the idle gentleman, some honest business; to the rich, +kind hearts and liberal hands; to the poor, warm firesides and food +enough, patient spirits, and the hope of better days; to our country, a +return of specie payments; and to you, sweet maid, the youth who stole +into your dream last night! And next New Year's Day (if I find nothing +better to do in the mean while) may Time again bring to your doors your +loving little friend, + THE CARRIER. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, TIME'S PORTRAITURE *** +By Nathaniel Hawthorne + +**** This file should be named haw7910.txt or haw7910.zip **** + +Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, haw7911.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, haw7910a.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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