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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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face on RemsenStreet — an unusual expanse for city streets. Inthose gardens and around the church there lived inour crowded city, from early spring till midwinter,with life as free as in his native wilds, a great whitecockatoo, who had escaped from some South Amer-ican ship as it lay at the wharf under the Heights.Hiding in the trees in the daytime, and perhaps inthe church tower, he tapped at friendly windowsat night, like a white-winged ghost, confident of thewelcome and food which he always found; some-times he screamed out harshly in angry hunger, andsometimes he spoke, as he tapped, foreign words ofgreeting or comment taught him by the sailor whohad brought him to this port. Into one of these gardens stretches out an artistictwo-storied extension of fine brick and terra-cottawalls ; and in the apex of the gable, facing the directsouth, is a large bronze sun-dial of triangular shape.It can from its prominent position be plainly seenby passers-by and church attendants; and it has
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George F. Watts, R.A., seated in his Garden by his Sun-dial,Limnerslease, Gompton, England. The Charm and Sentiment of Sun-dials 21 been a never ceasing source of pleasure to me formany years to note how closely it corresponds toclock time. I never fail to glance at it in passing.I used to hope to see the cockatoo wisely bendingover it; and that he would croak out to me over thegardens, Whats the time-o-the-day ? The owner of this sun-dial when so few cared forsun-dials, and many had never seen one, was SamuelBowne Duryea, Esq.; and he put his fancy for sun-dials to practical use, laying one around the flag-staffat Robins Island, tracing the analemma in coloredstones, where it was an object of interest to all whosaw it. It is strange that the sun-dial should have beenso generally neglected; our patriotism should havemade us cherish it as an emblem closely connectedwith the early material prosperity of the UnitedStates. I have told at some length in my book en-titled Old Time Gardens^

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