This hour is thine, To mark if fine. All hours are mine, When sun doth shine. [Illustration: SUNDIAL IN THE GROUNDS, LEE CASTLE, LANARKSHIRE. ] Fear not the dark, Fear thou the light; For men but mark, Things clear to sight. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT ABBEYFIELD, Nr. SHEFFIELD. ] He put me high up for to make, Men ever upward glances take; So by degrees in times they see, God’s light and love reflect in me. [Illustration: SUNDIAL IN LEYLAND CHURCHYARD, LANCASHIRE. Date 1714. ] Blessed the hours which are dead, For they died in the Lord. More blessed men of whom ’tis said, They kept His holy word. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 17th CENTURY. ] Insure against the ravages of time, Provide some years of rest for thy old age; Go, make good use of days while in your prime, The Sun gives chances to enrich life’s page. [Illustration: SUNDIAL IN GUNNERSBURY PARK. ] Rise up with the birds, go to bed with the same, And at the sundial you will never complain. But if time you’d know in the midst of the night, Then mark each cock-crow before it is light. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 18th CENTURY. ] Why time is likened to a wheel, The reason I don’t know, For only dials are truly leal, A clock may cease to go. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, SCOTLAND. ] I note the hours of every day, From early morn ’till dark; Then all my work the hours repay, And leave on me their mark. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, TURKEY. ] While there is life there is hope, And with all are minutes to spare; Strive, then, with trials to cope; Look happy, and banish all care. [Illustration: SUNDIAL IN THE GROUNDS OF ROCKINGHAM CASTLE. ] O swift is seen the lightning’s flash, And soon is passed the thunder crash; But naught can ever faster be, Than time going imperceptibly. [Illustration: GLASS SUNDIAL, OLD PARSONAGE, DIDSBURY. ] Ruled by the light, In space ruled you see, Men tell aright, What time it may be. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 17th CENTURY. ]