What's the Time o' the Day? 



Time is 



Too Slow for those who Wait, 

 Too Swift for those who Fear, 

 Too Long for those who Grieve, 

 Too Short for those who Rejoice; 

 But for those who Love, 



Time is 



Eternity. 



Motto for a Sun-dial by Henry van Dyke. 



A Garden of the Sun 



* * * A small level lawn in the centre of which 

 stood the sun-dial acting as the hub to a large wheel- 

 shaped flower bed, or, rather, group of beds, as the 

 wide spokes, each of a different but harmonizing 

 colour, were separated by narrow grass walks. 

 A similar walk circled the spokes and was bounded 

 in turn by a circular bed that might be called the 

 tire of the wheel, and divided the grass walk into 

 four in order that one might get to the centre with- 

 out walking through the outer bed. 



Four graceful wing-shaped beds filled the corners 

 of the grass plot, which by actual measurement 

 proved to be forty feet square. 



This plateau was on three sides enough higher 

 than the surrounding ground to allow an arbitrary 

 grass slope of two feet, with a couple of steps where 

 the long walk joined it. * * * It is to contain only 

 the perishable summer flowers, really flowers of the 

 sun, and fit companions of the sun-dial. 



" The Garden of a Commuter's Wife." 



(Mabel Osgood Wright.) 



A Floral Sun-Dial 



How well the skilful gardener drew 

 Of flowers and herbs this dial new, 



