SUNDIAL, 18th CENTURY. ] Necessity’s the mother of invention, Found true in every clime, Then let this dial now mention, She’s the grandmamma of time. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON BAKEWELL CHURCH. Date 1793. ] An hour to live. An hour to spend. An hour to give, Help to a friend. [Illustration: EARLY GREEK SUNDIAL IN THE BERLIN MUSEUM. ] To age, good-day, To youth, good-bye, Man like each ray, Is born to die. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, HERIOT’S HOSPITAL, SCOTLAND. Date about 1632. ] No enemy have I, I treat all men the same, And daily do I try, Lost friendships to reclaim. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, GRAYFRIARS BURIAL GROUND, PERTH. ] Learn thou to live; You question me, then I This answer give: Thus shall you learn to die. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT YARROW KIRK. Date 1640. ] I serve all men the same, Kings, nobles, rich and poor, For all go whence they came, In time to earth once more. [Illustration: SUNDIAL FROM PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A. ] No man can ever calculate Of years the present sum, Or tell by certain estimate How many are to come. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, RYE. Date 1831. ] Time moveth steadily away; And, save for this dial, We should never know the day, Or hours that now do smile. [Illustration: SUNDIAL 19th CENTURY. ] Time dissolves like the dew, It descends like the rain, For it visits this earth, But will never remain. [Illustration: A SCHOOL SUNDIAL AT ST. ANDREWS. Late 19th Century. ] Be hours light or dim, All of a chain are links; Then evil be to him, Who any evil thinks. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT TONGUE HOUSE, SUTHERLAND. Date 1714. ] Get on with your work, It will soon be night, And all that you shirk Sees to-morrow’s light. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON OLD WILLESDEN CHURCH, MIDDLESEX. ]