Message text written by INTERNET:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de >Hello All, Is anyone aquainted with the following quotation seen on a dial of 1703 made by Henry Thomas?
"Amyddst ye flowres I tell ye houres Tyme wanes awaye as flowres decaye Beyond ye tombe fresh flowers bloome Soe man shall ryse aboe ye skyes" Does anyone know the source of this please?< I found it in Gatty! p45 of the 1890 edition. The design of the dial is taken from Aurelia by Greville J Chester pp 160, 161. It is in the form of a square with one of the lines on each side. Gatty says: .... and at the end of it all, upon a lump of turf stood a grey time tinged sun-dial inscribed on its four sides with the quaintdistiches devised by Bishop Edmund Redyngton who set it up in AD 1665. Does that help? Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Patrick_Powers/ Lat: N 51d. 49m. 09s: Long: W 00d. 21m. 53s -
