Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 252
boards, which arefast disappearing becauseuseless in our days of travelby railroads and electric cars.You find them now at theangles of theroad, flat inthe grass andbushes, orstanding twist-ed askew, point- ^.ing skyward ornowhere. Theirvery place atthe cross-roadshas a significance, what or whence… … Sun-dial in Rectory Garden, Great Brington,Northamptonshire. 182 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday their hearts — a cruel old Dutch and English law.Judge Sewall tells of the public obloquy and horrorof suicide in Massachusetts in colonial days. Undera heap of stones suicides were buried at night…
Sundials · Roses · Rosicrucians
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