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Especially beautiful is the sun-dial on the upper 

 terrace, shown on page 86. The metal dial face 

 is supported by a marble slab resting on two carved 

 standards of classic 

 design representing 

 conventionalized 

 lions, these being 

 copies of those two 

 splendid standards 

 unearthed at Pom- 

 peii, which still may 

 be seen by the side 

 of the impluvium 

 in the atrium or 

 main hall of the 

 finest Graeco- 

 Roman dwelling- 

 place which has 

 been restored in 

 that wonderful city. These sun-dial standards at 

 Yaddo were made by the permission and under the 

 supervision of the Italian government. I can con- 

 ceive nothing more fitting or more inspiring to the 

 imagination than that, telling as they do the story 

 of the splendor of ancient Pompeii and of the pass- 

 ing centuries, they should now uphold to our sight 

 a sun-dial as if to bid us note the flight of time and 

 the vastness of the past. 



The entire sun-dial, with its beautiful adjuncts of 

 carefully shaped marble seats, stands on a semicir- 

 cular plaza of marble at the head of the noble flight 

 of marble steps. The engraved metal dial face 



Bronze Face of Dial in Rose Garden at 

 Yaddo. 



