The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-02-25
sun DIALS
Inscriptions and Verses

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Continued From Issue of April 10,
ll925,
Shakespeare in "As youl like it, !"
had pocket dial in his mind when he
wrote;
Drew dial from his poke and
looking at it with lack lustre eye, says
very wisely. 1t is ten O'clock
There are very few pocket dials in
America, if any beside the one noted
below. A dial of Ivory in the Museo
Corner in Venice is dated A. ID 1888
and another in the Nuremberg m useum
bears the date 1856
There is in the collection of Maxcy
Apologize a circular turned ivory pock-
ct dial Ldome top screwed on] which
on the inside has Dial clock, the size
Of an ordinary watch, plainly on q
piece Of paper with other printed words
| ilegible on it. Surrounding these on
the inside oval there is name m st
lobliterated ar ,und the bottom of lower
half Of ivory case. The months and dates
are printed below this circle, probably
produced so that when the dial is
properly adjusted it tells the time very
accurately. The sun clock may also be
made as q compass and it is said that
Washington had similar one in his
lsurvey ing trips when young man.
At Halford, in Berks, England, just
below the bell turret there is dial with
4 notices, one in Hebrew, one inLatin,
one in Greek and one in French.
On the gable Of church at Wyckiffe
lie q painted dial, and also one at
Aayde, Northumbe land, with no date
the dial, but the latter church was
built in 1876, which is probably the
date of the dial
H cd say s:
For as in sunshine only can we read
Tne march Of minutes on the diaPs ia e
So in the shudDw of that lonely place
There is no love and time is dead.
OH what is human life7
How, ike the dials tardy moving shade
Day by day ghdes by US nnperceived
Yet soon mans life is up and we are
gone.
On the porch Of the old Church, st.
John, the Baptist. at Marwenstow,
England. above the dial is a cross. The
dial reads:
The sun dial shows
The fieeting hours Of day
The cross fore shadoweth those
Which never pass away
tWe live in deeds not years
In thoughts, not brealbs,
In feelings, not in figures on dial
We should count time BY heart throbs
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest,
Acts the best.
There is said to be in the old parade
yard in front of Rannoch Castle, Dunn
phries, Scotland, quaint sundlal bear
ing this inscription:
Each TYNE We shadowe turneth
Us one daye nearer dethe.
THE PROMISE OF SLEEP.
All day could not work for woe
/ could not work nor rest
The trouble drove ne to and fro
Like leaf on the wings breast.
Night came saw my sorrow cease,
Sleep in the chamber stole;
Peace crept about my limbs and peace
Fell on my stormy soul.
And now I think of only this,
How | again may WOO
The gentle sleep, who promises
That death is gentle too. Amy Levy
Think the shadow on the dial
In the nature most undone,
M arks the passing of the trial
Proves the presence of the sun.
E. b. Browning.
With warning hand mark times rapid
flight,
From life's glad morning to it's solemn
night,
Yet through the dear Gods love snow
There's ligut above me by the shade
Whittier below.
1t is dial that points out
The sunset as it moves about
And shadowes out-in lines of night
The subtle changes of Times flight
Till all absorbing night hath laid,
The body in perpetual shade. 1871
Where Dante is said to have lived in
Padua, above the arched door is dial
with the motto in Latin:
Time passes on and man perceivss it
not"
Even if Dante didn't live there the
lines are taken from his ''Purgatory.1
At Appleton, Yorkshire, England, is
teautiful stained glass dial with lines
from Ovid on it.
An old Italian dial eads translated:
If the shade sometimes fail the hour to
name
Some freak OF nature is alone to blame,
And if to warth the critic is inclined,
Anger, not reason, governeth his mind,