The sacred tapers1 lights are gone.
Gray moss2 has clad the altar stone,
The holy image is o’erthrown,
The long ribb’d aisles4 are burst and shrunk,
The holy shrines5 to ruin sunk,
Rediviva.
The cell of Saint Cuthbert, as it was called, marked, or was supposed to mark, one of those resting-places, which that venerable saint was pleased to assign to his monks9, when his convent, being driven from Lindisfern by the Danes, became a peripatetic10 society of religionists, and bearing their patron’s body on their shoulders, transported him from place to place through Scotland and the borders of England, until he was pleased at length to spare them the pain of carrying him farther, and to choose his ultimate place of rest in the lordly towers of Durham. The odour of his sanctity remained behind him at each place where he had granted the monks a transient respite11 from their labours; and proud were those who could assign, as his temporary resting-place, any spot within their vicinity. There were few cells more celebrated12 and honoured than that of Saint Cuthbert, to which Roland Graeme now bent13 his way, situated14 considerably15 to the north-west of the great Abbey of Kennaquhair, on which it was dependent. In the neighbourhood were some of those recommendations which weighed with the experienced priesthood of Rome, in choosing their sites for places of religion.
There was a well, possessed16 of some medicinal qualities, which, of course, claimed the saint for its guardian17 and patron, and occasionally produced some advantage to the recluse18 who inhabited his cell, since none could reasonably expect to benefit by the fountain who did not extend their bounty19 to the saint’s chaplain. A few rods of fertile land afforded the monk his plot of garden ground; an eminence20 well clothed with trees rose behind the cell, and sheltered it from, the north and the east, while the front, opening to the south-west, looked up a wild but pleasant valley, down which wandered a lively brook21, which battled with every stone that interrupted its passage.
The cell itself was rather plainly than rudely constructed — a low Gothic building with two small apartments, one of which served the priest for his dwelling22-place, the other for his chapel23. As there were few of the secular24 clergy25 who durst venture to reside so near the Border, the assistance of this monk in spiritual affairs had not been useless to the community, while the Catholic religion retained the ascendancy26; as he could marry, christen, and administer the other sacraments of the Roman church. Of late, however, as the Protestant doctrines27 gained ground, he had found it convenient to live in close retirement28, and to avoid, as much as possible, drawing upon himself observation or animadversion. The appearance of his habitation, however, when Roland Graeme came before it in the close of the evening, plainly showed that his caution had been finally ineffectual.
The page’s first movement was to knock at the door, when he observed, to his surprise, that it was open, not from being left unlatched, but because, beat off its upper hinge, it was only fastened to the door-post by the lower, and could therefore no longer perform its functions. Somewhat alarmed at this, and receiving no answer when he knocked and called, Roland began to look more at leisure upon the exterior29 of the little dwelling before he ventured to enter it. The flowers, which had been trained with care against the walls, seemed to have been recently torn down, and trailed their dishonoured30 garlands on the earth; the latticed window was broken and dashed in. The garden, which the monk had maintained by his constant labour in the highest order and beauty, bore marks of having been lately trod down and destroyed by the hoofs31 of animals, and the feet of men.
The sainted spring had not escaped. It was wont32 to rise beneath a canopy33 of ribbed arches, with which the devotion of elder times had secured and protected its healing waters. These arches were now almost entirely34 demolished35, and the stones of which they were built were tumbled into the well, as if for the purpose of choking up and destroying the fountain, which, as it had shared in other days the honour of the saint, was, in the present, doomed36 to partake his unpopularity. Part of the roof had been pulled down from the house itself, and an attempt had been made with crows and levers upon one of the angles, by which several large corner-stones had been forced out of their place; but the solidity of ancient mason-work had proved too great for the time or patience of the assailants, and they had relinquished37 their task of destruction. Such dilapidated buildings, after the lapse38 of years, during which nature has gradually covered the effects of violence with creeping plants, and with weather-stains, exhibit, amid their decay, a melancholy39 beauty. But when the visible effects of violence appear raw and recent, there is no feeling to mitigate40 the sense of devastation41 with which they impress the spectators; and such was now the scene on which the youthful page gazed, with the painful feelings it was qualified42 to excite.
When his first momentary43 surprise was over, Roland Graeme was at no loss to conjecture44 the cause of these ravages45. The destruction of the Popish edifices46 did not take place at once throughout Scotland, but at different times, and according to the spirit which actuated the reformed clergy; some of whom instigated47 their hearers to these acts of demolition48, and others, with better taste and feeling, endeavoured to protect the ancient shrines, while they desired to see them purified from the objects which had attracted idolatrous devotion. From time to time, therefore, the populace of the Scottish towns and villages, when instigated either by their own feelings of abhorrence49 for Popish superstition50, or by the doctrines of the more zealous52 preachers, resumed the work of destruction, and exercised it upon some sequestered53 church, chapel, or cell, which had escaped the first burst of their indignation against the religion of Rome. In many places, the vices54 of the Catholic clergy, arising out of the wealth and the corruption55 of that tremendous hierarchy56, furnished too good an apology for wreaking57 vengeance58 upon the splendid edifices which they inhabited; and of this an old Scottish historian gives a remarkable59 instance.
“Why mourn ye,” said an aged60 matron, seeing the discontent of some of the citizens, while a stately convent was burnt by the multitude,— “why mourn ye for its destruction? If you knew half the flagitious wickedness which has been perpetrated within that house, you would rather bless the divine judgment61, which permits not even the senseless walls that screened such profligacy62, any longer to cumber63 Christian64 ground.”
But although, in many instances, the destruction of the Roman Catholic buildings might be, in the matron’s way of judging, an act of justice, and in others an act of policy, there is no doubt that the humour of demolishing65 monuments of ancient piety66 and munificence67, and that in a poor country like Scotland, where there was no chance of their being replaced, was both useless, mischievous68, and barbarous.
In the present instance, the unpretending and quiet seclusion69 of the monk of Saint Cuthbert’s had hitherto saved him from the general wreck70; but it would seem ruin had now at length reached him. Anxious to discover if he had at least escaped personal harm, Roland Graeme entered the half ruined cell.
The interior of the building was in a state which fully71 justified72 the opinion he had formed from its external injuries. The few rude utensils73 of the solitary74’s hut were broken down, and lay scattered75 on the floor, where it seemed as if a fire had been made with some of the fragments to destroy the rest of his property, and to consume, in particular, the rude old image of Saint Cuthbert, in its episcopal habit, which lay on the hearth76 like Dagon of yore, shattered with the axe77 and scorched78 with the flames, but only partially79 destroyed. In the little apartment which served as a chapel, the altar was overthrown80, and the four huge stones of which it had been once composed lay scattered around the floor. The large stone crucifix which occupied the niche81 behind the altar, and fronted the supplicant82 while he paid his devotion there, had been pulled down and dashed by its own weight into three fragments. There were marks of sledge-hammers on each of these; yet the image had been saved from utter demolition by the size and strength of the remaining fragments, which, though much injured, retained enough of the original sculpture to show what it had been intended to represent.8
Roland Graeme, secretly nursed in the tenets of Rome, saw with horror the profanation83 of the most sacred emblem84, according to his creed85, of our holy religion.
“It is the badge of our redemption,” he said, “which the felons86 have dared to violate — would to God my weak strength were able to replace it — my humble87 strength, to atone88 for the sacrilege!”
He stooped to the task he first meditated89, and with a sudden, and to himself almost an incredible exertion90 of power, he lifted up the one extremity91 of the lower shaft92 of the cross, and rested it upon the edge of the large stone which served for its pedestal. Encouraged by this success, he applied93 his force to the other extremity, and, to his own astonishment94, succeeded so far as to erect95 the lower end of the limb into the socket96, out of which it had been forced, and to place this fragment of the image upright.
While he was employed in this labour, or rather at the very moment when he had accomplished97 the elevation98 of the fragment, a voice, in thrilling and well-known accents, spoke99 behind him these words:—“Well done, thou good and faithful servant! Thus would I again meet the child of my love — the hope of my aged eyes.”
Roland turned round in astonishment, and the tall commanding form of Magdalen Graeme stood beside him. She was arrayed in a sort of loose habit, in form like that worn by penitents100 in Catholic countries, but black in colour, and approaching as near to a pilgrim’s cloak as it was safe to wear in a country where the suspicion of Catholic devotion in many places endangered the safety of those who were suspected of attachment101 to the ancient faith. Roland Graeme threw himself at her feet. She raised and embraced him, with affection indeed, but not unmixed with gravity which amounted almost to sternness.
“Thou hast kept well,” she said, “the bird in thy bosom102. 9 As a boy, as a youth, thou hast held fast thy faith amongst heretics — thou hast kept thy secret and mine own amongst thine enemies. I wept when I parted from you — I who seldom weep, then shed tears, less for thy death than for thy spiritual danger — I dared not even see thee to bid thee a last farewell — my grief, my swelling103 grief, had betrayed me to these heretics. But thou hast been faithful — down, down on thy knees before the holy sign, which evil men injure and blaspheme; down, and praise saints and angels for the grace they have done thee, in preserving thee from the leprous plague which cleaves104 to the house in which thou wert nurtured105.”
“If, my mother — so I must ever call you” replied Graeme,—“if I am returned such as thou wouldst wish me, thou must thank the care of the pious father Ambrose, whose instructions confirmed your early precepts106, and taught me at once to be faithful and to be silent.”
“Be he blessed for it,” said she; “blessed in the cell and in the field, in the pulpit and at the altar — the saints rain blessings107 on him!— they are just, and employ his pious care to counteract108 the evils which his detested109 brother works against the realm and the church,— but he knew not of thy lineage?”
“I could not myself tell him that,” answered Roland. “I knew but darkly from your words, that Sir Halbert Glendinning holds mine inheritance, and that I am of blood as noble as runs in the veins110 of any Scottish Baron111 — these are things not to be forgotten, but for the explanation I must now look to you.”
“And when time suits, thou shalt not look for it in vain. But men say, my son, that thou art bold and sudden; and those who bear such tempers are not lightly to be trusted with what will strongly move them.”
“Say rather, my mother,” returned Roland Graeme, “that I am laggard112 and cold-blooded — what patience or endurance can you require of which he is not capable, who for years has heard his religion ridiculed113 and insulted, yet failed to plunge114 his dagger115 into the blasphemer’s bosom!”
“Be contented116, my child,” replied Magdalen Graeme; “the time, which then and even now demands patience, will soon ripen117 to that of effort and action — great events are on the wing, and thou,— thou shalt have thy share in advancing them. Thou hast relinquished the service of the Lady of Avenel?”
“I have been dismissed from it, my mother — I have lived to be dismissed, as if I were the meanest of the train.”
“It is the better, my child,” replied she; “thy mind will be the more hardened to undertake that which must be performed.”
“Let it be nothing, then, against the Lady of Avenel,” said the page, “as thy look and words seem to imply. I have eaten her bread — I have experienced her favour — I will neither injure nor betray her.”
“Of that hereafter, my son,” said she; “but learn this, that it is not for thee to capitulate in thy duty, and to say this will I do, and that will I leave undone118 — No, Roland! God and man will no longer abide119 the wickedness of this generation. Seest thou these fragments — knowest thou what they represent?— and canst thou think it is for thee to make distinctions amongst a race so accursed by Heaven, that they renounce120, violate, blaspheme, and destroy, whatsoever121 we are commanded to believe in, whatsoever we are commanded to reverence122?”
As she spoke, she bent her head towards the broken image, with a countenance123 in which strong resentment124 and zeal51 were mingled125 with an expression of ecstatic devotion; she raised her left hand aloft as in the act of making a vow126, and thus proceeded; “Bear witness for me, blessed symbol of our salvation127, bear witness, holy saint, within whose violated temple we stand, that as it is not for vengeance of my own that my hate pursues these people, so neither, for any favour or earthly affection towards any amongst them, will I withdraw my hand from the plough, when it shall pass through the devoted128 furrow129! Bear witness, holy saint, once thyself a wanderer and fugitive130 as we are now — bear witness, Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven — bear witness, saints and angels!”
In this high train of enthusiasm, she stood, raising her eyes through the fractured roof of the vault131, to the stars which now began to twinkle through the pale twilight132, while the long gray tresses which hung down over her shoulders waved in the night-breeze, which the chasm133 and fractured windows admitted freely.
Roland Graeme was too much awed134 by early habits, as well as by the mysterious import of her words, to ask for farther explanation of the purpose she obscurely hinted at. Nor did she farther press him on the subject; for, having concluded her prayer or obtestation, by clasping her hands together with solemnity, and then signing herself with the cross, she again addressed her grandson, in a tone more adapted to the ordinary business of life.
“Thou must hence,” she said, “Roland, thou must hence, but not till morning — And now, how wilt135 thou shift for thy night’s quarters?— thou hast been more softly bred than when we were companions in the misty136 hills of Cumberland and Liddesdale.”
“I have at least preserved, my good mother, the habits which I then learned — can lie hard, feed sparingly, and think it no hardship. Since I was a wanderer with thee on the hills, I have been a hunter, and fisher, and fowler, and each of these is accustomed to sleep freely in a worse shelter than sacrilege has left us here.”
“Than sacrilege has left us here!” said the matron, repeating his words, and pausing on them. “Most true, my son; and God’s faithful children are now worst sheltered, when they lodge137 in God’s own house and the demesne138 of his blessed saints. We shall sleep cold here, under the nightwind, which whistles through the breaches139 which heresy140 has made. They shall lie warmer who made them — ay, and through a long hereafter.”
Notwithstanding the wild and singular expression of this female, she appeared to retain towards Roland Graeme, in a strong degree, that affectionate and sedulous141 love which women bear to their nurslings, and the children dependent on their care. It seemed as if she would not permit him to do aught for himself which in former days her attention had been used to do for him, and that she considered the tall stripling before her as being equally dependent on her careful attention as when he was the orphan142 child, who had owed all to her affectionate solicitude143.
“What hast thou to eat now?” she said, as, leaving the chapel, they went into the deserted144 habitation of the priest; “or what means of kindling145 a fire, to defend thee from this raw and inclement146 air? Poor child! thou hast made slight provision for a long journey; nor hast thou skill to help thyself by wit, when means are scanty147. But Our Lady has placed by thy side one to whom want, in all its forms, is as familiar as plenty and splendour have formerly148 been. And with want, Roland, come the arts of which she is the inventor.”
With an active and officious diligence, which strangely contrasted with her late abstracted and high tone of Catholic devotion, she set about her domestic arrangements for the evening. A pouch149, which was hidden under her garment, produced a flint arid150 steel, and from the scattered fragments around (those pertaining151 to the image of Saint Cuthbert scrupulously152 excepted) she obtained splinters sufficient to raise a sparkling and cheerful fire on the hearth of the deserted cell.
“And now,” she said, “for needful food.”
“Think not of it, mother,” said Roland, “unless you yourself feel hunger. It is a little thing for me to endure a night’s abstinence, and a small atonement for the necessary transgression153 of the rules of the Church upon which I was compelled during my stay in the castle.”
“Hunger for myself!” answered the matron —“Know, youth, that a mother knows not hunger till that of her child is satisfied.” And with affectionate inconsistency, totally different from her usual manner, she added, “Roland, you must not fast; you have dispensation; you are young, and to youth food and sleep are necessaries not to be dispensed154 with. Husband your strength, my child,— your sovereign, your religion, your country, require it. Let age macerate155 by fast and vigil a body which can only suffer; let youth, in these active times, nourish the limbs and the strength which action requires.”
While she thus spoke, the scrip, which had produced the means of striking fire, furnished provision for a meal; of which she herself scarce partook, but anxiously watched her charge, taking a pleasure, resembling that of an epicure156, in each morsel157 which he swallowed with a youthful appetite which abstinence had rendered unusually sharp. Roland readily obeyed her recommendations, and ate the food which she so affectionately and earnestly placed before him. But she shook her head when invited by him in return to partake of the refreshment158 her own cares had furnished; and when his solicitude became more pressing, she refused him in a loftier tone of rejection159.
“Young man,” she said, “you know not to whom or of what you speak. They to whom Heaven declares its purpose must merit its communication by mortifying160 the senses; they have that within which requires not the superfluity of earthly nutriment, which is necessary to those who are without the sphere of the Vision. To them the watch spent in prayer is a refreshing161 slumber162, and the sense of doing the will of Heaven is a richer banquet than the tables of monarchs163 can spread before them!— But do thou sleep soft, my son,” she said, relapsing from the tone of fanaticism164 into that of maternal165 affection and tenderness; “do thou sleep sound while life is but young with thee, and the cares of the day can be drowned in the slumbers166 of the evening. Different is thy duty and mine, and as different the means by which we must qualify and strengthen ourselves to perform it. From thee is demanded strength of body — from me, strength of soul.”
When she thus spoke, she prepared with ready address a pallet-couch, composed partly of the dried leaves which had once furnished a bed to the solitary, and the guests who occasionally received his hospitality, and which, neglected by the destroyers of his humble cell, had remained little disturbed in the corner allotted167 for them. To these her care added some of the vestures which lay torn and scattered on the floor. With a zealous hand she selected all such as appeared to have made any part of the sacerdotal vestments, laying them aside as sacred from ordinary purposes, and with the rest she made, with dexterous168 promptness, such a bed as a weary man might willingly stretch himself on; and during the time she was preparing it, rejected, even with acrimony, any attempt which the youth made to assist her, or any entreaty169 which he urged, that she would accept of the place of rest for her own use. “Sleep thou,” said she, “Roland Graeme, sleep thou — the persecuted170, the disinherited orphan — the son of an ill-fated mother — sleep thou! I go to pray in the chapel beside thee.”
The manner was too enthusiastically earnest, too obstinately171 firm, to permit Roland Graeme to dispute her will any farther. Yet he felt some shame in giving way to it. It seemed as if she had forgotten the years that had passed away since their parting; and expected to meet, in the tall, indulged, and wilful172 youth, whom she had recovered, the passive obedience173 of the child whom she had left in the Castle of Avenel. This did not fail to hurt her grandson’s characteristic and constitutional pride. He obeyed, indeed, awed into submission174 by the sudden recurrence175 of former subordination, and by feelings of affection and gratitude176. Still, however, he felt the yoke177.
“Have I relinquished the hawk178 and the hound,” he said, “to become the pupil of her pleasure, as if I were still a child?— I, whom even my envious179 mates allowed to be superior in those exercises which they took most pains to acquire, and which came to me naturally, as if a knowledge of them had been my birthright? This may not, and must not be. I will be no reclaimed180 sparrow-hawk, who is carried hooded181 on a woman’s wrist, and has his quarry182 only shown to him when his eyes are uncovered for his flight. I will know her purpose ere it is proposed to me to aid it.”
These, and other thoughts, streamed through the mind of Roland Graeme; and although wearied with the fatigues183 of the day, it was long ere he could compose himself to rest.
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profanation
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