Varied Gardens Fair 
87 
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. 
