Identifier: sundialsrosesofy00earl (find matches)
Title: Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Sundials Roses Rosicrucians
Publisher: New York London : Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
at indignity if no one rode out withthe traveller. Sometimes a great party would goon horseback several miles on the way. Doubtlessthe countess parted with her mother by the way-side, after some visit which one had made to theother. The stone table for the alms still stands, but isconcealed in the picture by the ugly protecting fence.The present rector of Appleby Church was askedwhether the alms was still given, and answered, Idhear from it if it wasnt. Another tender memorial to a loved mother is thesun-dial on page 291. It is at Neaum Crag, Am-bleside, and was erected by Albert Fleming, Esq.The motto is the Latin rendering of the text. Psalmcxxxix. 12, The darkness and light to thee areboth alike. On the base of the pedestal are thenoble lines of Matthew Arnold: — ** O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou nov^ ? For that force.Surely, has not been left vain !Somewhere, surely, afar.In the sounding labour-house vastOf being, is practised that strength.Zealous, beneficent, firm.
Text Appearing After Image:
Sun-dial on Library Tower, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. The Sun-dial as a Memorial 291 I often wonder when I see the very trying resultsof affectionate desire to erect a memorial to ourbeloved dead that one dignified form is whollyneglected, especially when such unhappy examples

Note About Images