. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . re readilyto the power of association. Let your dial be madefrom stone taken from some historic or memorablespot. For instance, a pedestal was cut in stonetaken from the field of the battle of that battle took a prominent part a sturdy oldfarmer from what is now Vermont. His part wasprominent—not that he was an officer, but he wasa soldier of such exalted enthusiasm and belief in his cause; he was so fear-less, so enduring, so bold,though he was seven
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . re readilyto the power of association. Let your dial be madefrom stone taken from some historic or memorablespot. For instance, a pedestal was cut in stonetaken from the field of the battle of that battle took a prominent part a sturdy oldfarmer from what is now Vermont. His part wasprominent—not that he was an officer, but he wasa soldier of such exalted enthusiasm and belief in his cause; he was so fear-less, so enduring, so bold,though he was seventyyears old, that he becamea leader in his companythrough sheer force of hisown belief and his expres-sion of it — as many an-other leader has quaint and fearlesssayings are told to thisday. He was a blacksmith,and of course with his tem-perament he was the bestblacksmith in the province;and he was proud of hiswork, as all first-class workmen are. And, what isfar rarer, his grandson is proud of it also ; and onthe fine shaft cut in grand simplicity of shape fromthis Bennington boulder, he has set as a gnomon a. 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
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