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
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mope and sigh and share your feelins so ;They hush the ground beneath so, too, I swanYou half forget youve got a body on. ** Under the yaller pines I house When sunshine makes em all sweet-scented,And hear among their furry boughs The baskin west wind purr contented. Forests of tall-growing Pines and forests of mastsin our harbors alike are disappearing; thus we losethe finest of those beauties given to us simplythrough the repetition of perpendicular forms. 1presume the brother outline, the long ranks ofbayonets, will also disappear from our marchingarmies, and some insignificant little deadly weaponfill the bayonets place. Yearly are the picturesqueelements of our life taken from us. We are givenmany comforts to replace them, but no work ofscience or art can ever equal the wondrous naturalbeauty of the serried Pine trees and Pine masts. Even this row of a scant dozen Pines guardingthe sun-dial has the charm of a succession of up-right lines. It is this beauty of perpendicular forms
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o CQ > c o X o T3 c C c GO The Setting of Sun-dials 249 that make many plant rows of Hollyhocks as a back-ground to the sun-dialj where they are beautiful aslong as they stand in erect lines even though theblossoms are gone and only the cheeses remainstudding thestalks withtheir curiousforms. Thereis much dig-nity in all ofthe Mallowtribe in the gar-den, whetherthey be ourbeautiful wildMarshmallows,the H ol ly-hocks, or ourfriend the Roseof Sharon. We are aptto think andspeak of a sun-dial as beingsuited to aflower garden ;but it is equally so for an expanse of lawn, or evento a paved courtyard with no growing flowers. Ofcourse its happiest home is like every one elses ina flower garden. There are certain gardens to whichthe garden-dial seems wonted and a part thereof;these are specially all old-fashioned gardens, and all

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