. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial at Edwin Forrest Home, nowMount St. Vincent Convent, 262 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday In an old album there is written this poem byProfessor Samuel Finley Breese Morse, with a note. The Lodge at Charlecote House, Stratford-on-Avon. saying that he saw the motto on a sun-dial at Worms: — To A. G. E. Moras Non Numero Nisi Serenas. * The sun when it shines on a clear cloudless skyMarks the time on my disc in figures of light;If clouds gather oer me, unheed
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial at Edwin Forrest Home, nowMount St. Vincent Convent, 262 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday In an old album there is written this poem byProfessor Samuel Finley Breese Morse, with a note. The Lodge at Charlecote House, Stratford-on-Avon. saying that he saw the motto on a sun-dial at Worms: — To A. G. E. Moras Non Numero Nisi Serenas. * The sun when it shines on a clear cloudless skyMarks the time on my disc in figures of light;If clouds gather oer me, unheeded they fly,I note not the hours except they be bright. ** So when I review all the scenes that have past Between me and thee, be they dark, be they light. Sun-dial Mottoes 263 I forget what was dark, the light I hold fast,I note not the hours except they be bright. Samuel F. B. , March, 1845. A sun-dial motto may be simple in its wording andit must be lucid. Lucidity is often confounded withsimplicity ; but the former is a quality of style, andthe latter of thought. A straining after rhyme mustnot be permitted to make the thought of the mottoobscure. For instance, this motto from Lucile ispretty, but it is not lucid; in fact, it is not true : — THE DIALRECEIVES MANY SHADES, AND EACH POINTS TO TH
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