Whither wend ye, Sir, to-day, What about the hour; Tarry not too long away, From thine ancestral tower. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT SHIRLEY. ] Forgotten, yet recorded, Reminder of the past, Each hour from life defrauded, Thou showest us at last. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON JOHN KNOX’S HOUSE. Date 1565. ] Blame not the hour, For God’s bright sun, Gave you like power This course to run. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT PORT SUNLIGHT. ] O mourn not the old, But rejoice in the new, For hours that I hold, Are gifts good and true. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON IMPERIAL HOTEL, SOUTHAMPTON ROW, LONDON. ] Do not think me solemn, For I am full of fun, The hours when bright I hold them, When dark I mark not one. [Illustration: SUNDIAL AT MOOR PARK, HERTS. ] Let mirth give place to sorrow, Time is with you yet. Live, for a to-morrow, May never dawn or set. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON A HOUSE, HEATH DRIVE, WEST HAMPSTEAD. ] The wisest saying if unheard, Is like this hour unseen, And idle years that mark no word, Or time, need not have been. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 19th CENTURY. ] To stop a trouble on the way, Go meet the same at break of day, For like a snowball trouble grows, Each hour it moves, each step it goes. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, EARLY 17th CENTURY. ] Be brave, be strong, It is not long, Ere you shall see All troubles flee. [Illustration: SUNDIAL IN BIDSTONE CHURCHYARD, CHESHIRE. Date 1733. ] Old friends are best, Time tells us so, Hark his request, No further go. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON AN HOTEL, HAMPSTEAD HEATH. Date 1875. ] O regulate your lives, Come order them by me, For he grows rich and thrives, Who husbands hours men see. [Illustration: SUNDIAL, 20th CENTURY. ] We both await the hour, Time we cannot hurry, Whilst we’ve life and power, Let us cease from worry. [Illustration: SUNDIAL ON A COTTAGE IN NORMANDY. ]