INNER TEMPLE		CROWN OFFICE ROW The spacious lawns run down from Crown Office Row to the Thames. In the days before the erection of the Victoria Embankment in 1865, the River Thames came much closer to the Temple and the fairly small garden front ran continuously from Inner Temple to Middle. Where the quarrel between York and Lancaster started, when the white and red roses were plucked as described in Chapter Nine, is not exactly known, but Inner Temple, for one, still shows a well-tended rosary. The proud wrought-iron gates invite the eye's inspection of the motifs: the pegasus accompanied by the Gray's Inn griffin, which betokens the accord between the two Inns. Gray's Inn presented the gates to the Honourable Society in 1730. The sundial near the gates dates from 1707. There is another, more attractive one near the southern end of Paper Buildings, which was originally presented to Clement's Inn by Lord Clare. It is in the form of a kneeling black boy holding a platter and is described in the following doggerel verses: In vain, poor sable son of woe, Thou see'st the tender tear; From cannibals thou fledst in vain, Lawyers less quarter give; The first won't eat you till you're slain, The last will do it alive. This dates also from about 1700; it may have come from Italy or it may have been cast by a Piccadilly statuary. Nearby is a pond and the statue of a boy by Margaret Wrightson, which bears the words: 'Lawyers were children once', off quoted in the Family Division.