Time & Brevity
The Sun-Dial at Morven
From The Poems of Henry van Dyke (1925)
Time & Brevity
Two hundred years of blessing I record
For Morven's house, protected by the Lord:
And still I stand among old-fashioned flowers
To mark for Morven many sunlit hours.
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Codex Note
From "Epigrams, Greetings, and Inscriptions". Subtitle in the source: For Bayard and Helen Stockton.
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Dyke, Henry van. “The Sun-Dial at Morven.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/95/.
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Dyke, Henry van. “The Sun-Dial at Morven.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/95/.
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