...has a beauty of its own. The result suggests at once the lines many of us have learned in youth : — "As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in this Church we see ; As many marble pillars here appear, As there are hours throughout the fleeting year ; As many...

...as hours in the year) is now no recommendation at all. However, the mention of it must be preserved :"As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in one church we see; As many marble pillars there appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year;...

...Cathedral as there are days in the year, as many pillars as there are hours. Thus runs the rhyme : — " As many days as in one year there be, So many windows...the fleeting year. As many gates as moons one here doth view : Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true." Whether this be fact or not, it...

...attributed to a local worthy, one Daniel Rogers, sum up some curious coincidences: " As many clays as in one year there be So many windows in this church...fleeting year. As many gates as moons one here does view, Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true I " Much of the old glass is said to have been...

...jingle explaining the design of Salisbury Cathedral, dating from several centuries after its completion: "As many days as in one year there be. So many windows in this church we see; As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year; As many...

...number of windows, p and doorways in the Cathedral may be a tained from the following local rhyme : — As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in this church we see ; As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year As many...