. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial in Wall of BlackFriars Burial-ground, Perth. Pedestals and Gnomons 231 bronze arm wielding a hammer, a splendid piece ofwork. It fairly speaks to you of his grandfather,the fighting blacksmith, of the certainty of the blowswith which he made his way through life, conquer-ing Time because he fearlessly and cheerfully filled it with honest and ^ . dignified work. Another dial-pillar has a ten-derer message: itislaidincementofsea-worn stonesof nearly uniforms
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial in Wall of BlackFriars Burial-ground, Perth. Pedestals and Gnomons 231 bronze arm wielding a hammer, a splendid piece ofwork. It fairly speaks to you of his grandfather,the fighting blacksmith, of the certainty of the blowswith which he made his way through life, conquer-ing Time because he fearlessly and cheerfully filled it with honest and ^ . dignified work. Another dial-pillar has a ten-derer message: itislaidincementofsea-worn stonesof nearly uniformsize and greatbeauty of tint,which were gath-ered from thebeach, and thevery corner of thebeach made mem-orable to the dial-owners as theplace where thetwain became be-trothed ; and since the husband is a well-knownShakespearian critic, it is meet that the motto shouldbe a line from Shakespeares Sonnet cxvi : — ^ Love alters not with Times brief hours and weeks. A dial-face which I have seen was cast in metaltaken from the sheathing of an old battleship, uponwhich the dial-owner, when a midshipman, had.
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