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 28
erall Dial, and a Dial it, in alesser volume. — Heliotropum Sciothericum, Robert Hegge, 1630. HERE are in nature somesimple expressions of useful-ness which have a charmthat is impossible to de-fine. This charm seems toconsist in the direct, theunadorned, and unencum-bered application of shapeand… … 2 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday- beauty, but to serve distinctly and simply the pur-pose of existence. Such objects are the snow-shoeand the canoe of our North American Indians;absolutely perfect in outline, devoid of all super-fluities, impossible of improvement, they possessin full not only…
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