Why I mention him is, that your "Power of Music" reminded me of his poem of "The Ballad-singer in the Seven Dials," Do you remember his epigram on the old woman who taught Newton the A B C, which, after all, he says, he hesitates not to call Newton's "Principia"?

They will not come in awkwardly, I hope, in a talk of fountains and sun-dials.

And yet, shyer than gravitation, less to be counted on than the fluxions of sun-dials, stealthier than the growth of a forest, are the footsteps of Christianity amongst the political workings of man.

The walls were lined with gauges and dials of many styles and sizes.

Many hours later, his worst fears having been realized, he found himself again in the little room of many wheels and dials.

The art advocates of the Commune, with but few exceptions, seem to have been of the most humble sort, inspired with the melodramatic taste of our Seven Dials or the New Out, venting itself in ill-drawn heroic females, symbols of the Republic, clad in white, wearing either mural crowns or Phrygian caps, and waving red flags.

"Leith's face is not a likable one, I will admit, but a lot of good fellows have ugly dials.

They carved their Lares and Penates on their house-fronts very curiously, with sun-dials and hatchments, sacred texts and legends of hospitality.

Instinctively and helplessly Moran and Tyler focused their gaze on the dials that bound their red wrists.

Mottoes for Sun Dials, 122.

He attended to various dials and incoming signals.

He walked quietly over to his console, sat for a moment without moving, then began to move dials and enter numbers into the navigational program.

Endless banks of dials, screens, switches, and other electronic paraphernalia were set out in the huge room where they worked.

Above is a clock with three dials, and a belfry to admit the fine set of bells from the old church, the sound of which will doubtless receive effect through the four large upper windows which are the main features of the tower.

No one had yet made rods, cranks, and gauge-dials sing anthems; but she knew it was Hilary and an artisan or two in his foundry whose audacity in the remaking of these gliding, plunging, turning, vanishing, and returning members had given them their fine new speed-making power, and as he stood at her side and pointed from part to part they took on a living charm that was reflected into him.

Sun-dials and gardens!

Sun-dials and gardens!

And if, perchance, the garden-lover is not building castles in Spain, but has crept into the garden only for brief rest from the fray, or to give a weary clock-driven soul an hour with its Maker, then truly againsun-dials and gardens!

Sun-dials and gardens!

© on addition of two moon dials & general revision; 20Sep34; AA166218.

So I found two or three compasses, some mathematical instruments, dials, perspective glasses, books of navigation, three English Bibles, and several other good books, which I carefully put up.

It may be delivered to the countess in Belgravia, and reach her dainty lip in the morning chocolate, or it may be eagerly swallowed up by the half-starved children of some back court in the purlieus of the Seven Dials.

The cosy nooks and corners, crannies, and dark places where, in old-fashioned days, men hugged their private vices without shamefacedness have been swept away as ruthlessly as Seven Dials.

Also other wonders of the sportive shears Fair Nature misadorning; there were found Globes, spiral columns, pyramids, and piers With spouting urns and budding statues crowned; And horizontal dials on the ground In living box, by cunning artists traced, And galleys trim, or on long voyage bound, But by their roots there ever anchored fast.

With that artistick taste as so distinguishes 'em, they have crissened the place where the seven roads meets, "The Seven Dials."