It is given to each one, To rise above the ills of life, And of trials there are none, That are unconquerable in strife. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT NEWBATTLE, SCOTLAND. Date 1635. ] Time may change the hearts of men, But not the record of their lives; For when they are perished, then All their history survives. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT BROMBOROUGH HALL, CHESHIRE. ] Love like the tide may ebb and may flow, May fail in fond endeavour. But love that is true I’d have you know, Like time, lives on for ever. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 18th CENTURY. ] O never meet this life’s reverses, With idle words or foolish curses, But strive to prove that each one blesses, All thy endeavours to successes. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT HICKORY GROUND. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, U.S.A. ] Though some look forward, some look back, And others mark the present, I leave to Fate all chance attack, Keep working and look pleasant. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 20th CENTURY. ] If me with life you would compare, Every minute takes its share, O suffer then no time to be Wasted or misused by thee. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT MELLOR, DERBYSHIRE. ] Ever let each rainbow prove, God’s eternal, God is love, And for hours of light you see, Praise His name continually. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT MARKET HARBOROUGH. ] Where are those who went before? And where are hours past? Departed they return no more, So long as time may last. [Illustration: SUNDIAL IN THE GARDEN OF THE BISHOP’S PALACE, CANTERBURY. ] At the breaking of the day, We seldom think of night, And till childhood’s passed away, Death seldom looms in sight. [Illustration: SUNDIAL IN WESTBOURNE PARK ROAD, LONDON. Date 1850. ] With an iron rod I mark Every sunny hour till dark, With a rod of iron, too, Every hour marks all you do. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, COOKHAM, BERKSHIRE. 18th Century. ] Go, live as long as you can, Love for ever and aye; Be kind to every man, For life soon passes away. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON BISHOP FOX’S TOWER, FARNHAM, SURREY. ]