. Stories for the household . wind whistled over it, and might have told a fine tale of him atwhose birth the bell had sounded, and over whom the wind had but now 8 Stories for the Household. blown cold in tlie forest of a neighbouring land, where he had sunkdown, exhausted by fatigue, with his whole wealth, his only hope for thefuture, the written pages of his tragedy Fiesco: the wind might havetold of the youths only patrons, men who were artists, and who yetslunk away to amuse themselves at skittles while his play was beingread: the wind could have told of the pale fugitive, who sat for wea
. Stories for the household . wind whistled over it, and might have told a fine tale of him atwhose birth the bell had sounded, and over whom the wind had but now 8 Stories for the Household. blown cold in tlie forest of a neighbouring land, where he had sunkdown, exhausted by fatigue, with his whole wealth, his only hope for thefuture, the written pages of his tragedy Fiesco: the wind might havetold of the youths only patrons, men who were artists, and who yetslunk away to amuse themselves at skittles while his play was beingread: the wind could have told of the pale fugitive, who sat for wearyweeks and months in the wretched tavern, where the host brawled anddrank, and coarse boozing was going on while he sang of the days, dark days! The heart must suffer and endure for itselfthe trials it is to sing. Dark days and cold nights also passed over the old bell. The ironframe did not feel them, but the bell within the heart of man is affectedby gloomy times. How fared it with the young man ? How fared it. REMOVING THE BELL. with the old bell ? The bell was carried far away, farther than its soundcould have been heard from the lofty tower in which it had once the youth ? The bell in his heart sounded farther than his eyeshould ever see or his foot should ever wander; it is sounding andsounding on, over the ocean, round the whole earth. But let us firstspeak of the belfry bell. It was carried away from Marbach, was soldfor old metal, and destined for the melting furnace in Bavaria. Butwhen and how did this happen ? In the capital of Bavaria, many yearsafter the bell had fallen from the tower, there was a talk of its beingmelted down, to be used in the manufacture of a memorial in honourof one of the great ones of the German laud. And behold how suit-able this war—how strangely and wonderfully things happened in theworld! ID. Denmark, on one of those green islands where the beech\voods rustle, and the many Huns Graves are to be seen, quite a poor Th
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