Lovecraft, H P - The Street

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The Street

by H. P. Lovecraft

Written 1920?

Published December 1920 in The Wolverine, No. 8, p. 2-12.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say

they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of the Street.

Men of strength and honour fashioned that Street: good valiant men of our blood who had

come from the Blessed Isles across the sea. At first it was but a path trodden by bearers of

water from the woodland spring to the cluster of houses by the beach. Then, as more men

came to the growing cluster of houses and looked about for places to dwell, they built

cabins along the north side, cabins of stout oaken logs with masonry on the side toward

the forest, for many Indians lurked there with fire-arrows. And in a few years more, men

built cabins on the south side of the Street.

Up and down the Street walked grave men in conical hats, who most of the time carried

muskets or fowling pieces. And there were also their bonneted wives and sober children.

In the evening these men with their wives and children would sit about gigantic hearths

and read and speak. Very simple were the things of which they read and spoke, yet things

which gave them courage and goodness and helped them by day to subdue the forest and

till the fields. And the children would listen and learn of the laws and deeds of old, and of

that dear England which they had never seen or could not remember.

There was war, and thereafter no more Indians troubled the Street. The men, busy with

labour, waxed prosperous and as happy as they knew how to be. And the children grew

up comfortable, and more families came from the Mother Land to dwell on the Street.

And the children’s children, and the newcomers’ children, grew up. The town was now a

city, and one by one the cabins gave place to houses—simple, beautiful houses of brick

and wood, with stone steps and iron railings and fanlights over the doors. No flimsy

creations were these houses, for they were made to serve many a generation. Within there

were carven mantels and graceful stairs, and sensible, pleasing furniture, china, and

silver, brought from the Mother Land.

So the Street drank in the dreams of a young people and rejoiced as its dwellers became

more graceful and happy. Where once had been only strength and honour, taste and

learning now abode as well. Books and paintings and music came to the houses, and the

young men went to the university which rose above the plain to the north. In the place of

conical hats and small-swords, of lace and snowy periwigs, there were cobblestones over

which clattered many a blooded horse and rumbled many a gilded coach; and brick

sidewalks with horse blocks and hitching-posts.

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