SUN-DIAL

Related Subjects: Sun, Time

1. True as the needle to the pole,
   Or as the dial to the sun.—BARTON BOOTH, Song
   

2. True as the dial to the sun,
   Although it be not shin'd upon.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

3. There stands in the garden of old St. Mark
   A sun dial quaint and gray.
   It takes no heed of the hours which in dark
   Pass o'er it day by day.
   It has stood for ages amid the flowers
   In that land of sky and song.
   "I number none but the cloudless hours."
   Its motto the live day long.—W. C. DOANE, Of a Sun Dial in Venice
   

4. Thou breathing dial! since thy day began
   The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.—W. S. LANDOR
   

5. I am moved by the light.—MAETERLINCK, Measure of the Hours
   

6. I count only the hours that are serene.—MAETERLINCK, Measure of the Hours
   

7. The Natural Clock-work, by the mighty ONE
   Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.—Sun Dial Motto