. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . n churches. A fine one isshown on page 53, it is leaded into a window atKersal Cell, near Manchester, England ; the home ofJohn Byrom, who wrote Christians Awake ! Idont know why these nearly all have a fly painted onthem — perhaps as a remote pun that the hours window-dial at Lambeth Palace, one at the pri-vate chapel at Berkeley Castle, both have the has both a fly and a butterfly — the latterbeing the emblem of immortality. The motto, Dum spe
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . n churches. A fine one isshown on page 53, it is leaded into a window atKersal Cell, near Manchester, England ; the home ofJohn Byrom, who wrote Christians Awake ! Idont know why these nearly all have a fly painted onthem — perhaps as a remote pun that the hours window-dial at Lambeth Palace, one at the pri-vate chapel at Berkeley Castle, both have the has both a fly and a butterfly — the latterbeing the emblem of immortality. The motto, Dum spectas fugio^ is a favorite mottofor these window-dials: while thou lookest iFLY. Arthur Young, in his Six IVeeks Tours^ tellsof two window-dials at the Rectory, North-hill, Bed-fordshire. He says that the fly had the wingspainted on one side of the glass, and the body andlegs on the other, so to deceive fully the date was 1664. Noon-marksj Spot-dials, Window-dials 53 The ancient Greeks wrote of measuring the dayby the course of a shadow, and speak of a six-footshadow, a ten-foot shadow. It has been suggested. Window-dial at Kersal Cell, Manchester, England. that this was each mans own shadow as thrown onthe ground ; long in the morning and at night, andshort at midday, and that he measured it with hisown foot, as did the Malays in Madagascar. The early successors of the noon-mark, such asthe water-clock or clepsydra, were known to many 54 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday nations in some form, though it is told that theclepsydra was invented 2636 by a Chinesescientist. Duke Chan, who is alleged to be the in-ventor of the compass about 1130 , was the firstto employ the clepsydra as a timepiece. Chinesepoetry, even the most ancient, abounds in gracefuland sentimental allusions to the clepsydra. Awaiting wife complains of the leaden foot of time inthe form of verse called a stop-short : — **It seems that the Clepsydra Has been filled up with the SeaTo mak
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