An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature/The Sun-dial

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The Sun-dial

A HOUSE in ruins. On the crannied wallsMoss gluttonously crawlsAnd lichens in a spongy rabble.
The yard is rank with nettle-thicketsAnd toad-flax. In the poisoned water-pit Rats have a drinking-lair.A sickly apple-tree, by lightning split, Knows not, if it bloomed e’er.
 When days are clear, the whistling finchesInvade the rubble. Beaming, sunlit daysLiven the dial’s arc that fronts the place,And freakishly and gaily on its face Time’s shadow dancesAnd to the sky recites in words of gloom: Sine sole nihil sum.
 For all is mask.The Sun-dial (1913)

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1970, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 54 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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