[Illustration: SUNDIAL AT LYDNEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Date about 1688. ] Hope, like the sun, doth rise Where care has set, And though clouds veil her skies, And disappointment vies, Hope shineth yet. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT CATTERICK, YORKSHIRE. ] Now patience, mortals, patience know, Who seek an hour to swiftly go, For time when gone ne’er comes again, And what’s achieved will not remain. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT PUTNEY CHURCH. ] O, swift are the wings of a swallow, And the vibrating sound of a chime; But naught has been borne that can follow, Such a thing as a moment of time. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON MELBURY CASTLE, DORSETSHIRE. Date 1890. ] Learn to value life, each one, Judge by gifts received; Count as gold the hours of sun, Helping us in all works done, Far more than we’d believed. [Illustration: SUNDIAL. Date about 1740. ] Nature may teach the time of year, Frail man record the past; But hours and minutes, ever dear, Are noted surely by me here, So long as I may last. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT ALLOA, SCOTLAND Date 1695. ] Some men will give you of their time, And others of their gold; Let me but tend this simple rhyme, Go, work your best while in your prime Remembering you grow old. [Illustration: SUNDIAL IN ABBEY GROUNDS, DRYBURG. Date 1640. ] I watch the tints of early dawn, The flickering light depart, And through the hours of night ’til morn, Patient I wait like one forlorn, The new-born day to start. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 17th CENTURY. ] He who hath no use for time, Is either a fool or dead; And, if compulsory choice were mine, The latter I’d be in halls sublime, Than a fool with useless head. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 17th CENTURY. ] Earthly kings may rise and fall, And rule with best endeavour; But time supreme outlives them all, Demands obedience to each call, And keeps his throne for ever. [Illustration: SAXON SUNDIALS ON PORCH AT MERSHAM CHURCH, KENT. ]