On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Patrick Powers wrote: >Message text written by INTERNET:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de > >>"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"< > >Back yet again! This has got me hooked!! I have also found reference to >this rhyme in 'Sundials and Roses of Yesterday' by Alice M Earle 1902, p >271-3. > >She confirms that the motto "was written by Rev Greville J Chester and it >appears in his novel Aurelia as part of his description of the Bishop's >(that's Bishop Redryngton's) garden" Apparently this novel's description >was so 'real' that others copied the motto thereafter. It was for example >engraved on the lower steps of a faceted dial at Linburn, Midlothian which >was designed by Thomas Ross. > >Presumably we would need to establish the date of the novel 'Aurelia' in >order to get to the date of the motto. I don't have any knowledge of that >though.
>From The British Library Public Catalogue: Title: Aurelia, or, the Close at Mixeter. Sketches in a cathedral city. Main heading: CHESTER. Greville John Publication details: pp. 272. M. Ward & Co.: London, 1882. 8o. Shelfmark: 12643.f.14. -- Richard Langley Professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ =============================================================================== -