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The Street
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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时间：2024-11-24
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