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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., A rill from the town pump. (search)
A rill from the town pump. (With apologies to Hawthorne.) Because of recent inquiry, though it seems like carrying coals to Newcastle to even try to improve upon The Pump in the Market-place, so excellently presented before the Historical Society by Miss Gill, See register, Vol. XIII, p. 1. we call attention to our frontispiece, and quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rill, a favorite selection, always read with interest in our school days. In far antiquity, beneath a darksome shadow of venerable boughs, a spring bubbled out of the leaf-strewn earth, in the very spot where you now behold me on the sunny pavement. The water was as bright and cleAnd it is just as certain that the governor refreshed himself with its cool water after crossing the Mistick on his long tramp to Salem. But we may not follow Hawthorne's pump rill into the baptismal water placed on the communion table, for alas! Medford had no meetinghouse then, nor yet for sixty years, and when she did, the c