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SUNDIALS

By

A. M.

su:j^t>i^ls.

CT^HE garden cloc\ of sunny climates is necessarily the

companion of hours so beautiful that the mere

name " Sundial " is dear to those who care for gardens^

for phrases^ for the sun, and for the South, The best

gardens are those which other ages made and ^^ \ept

up" and which our own age — an unthrifty heir — has

allowed to grow somewhat wild with random grass, and

somewhat dry with sun. We " enter into the labours "

SUNDIALS, of our fathers; not into the perfection which they prepared^ but into its gentle and more beautiful ruin and undoing. And '^e inherit something peculiarly theirs in the ancient garden — their usually austere sundial mottoes, c/f modern man enjoys the bee-visited^ grass-grown^ and fragrant paths that no gardener trims, though the man who made the paths would hardly approve them so; a modern man reads the warnings of a seventeenth-century sculptory letting its lesson go by.

The sundial of my own childhood faced a blue sea, across olive and oleander^ and it bore an inscription which, translated, threatened the generations: ** Thou seest the hour, but J^owest not the hour''^ —" of thy deathy^ we supposed. In the twentieth century no may>

SUNDIALS.

would engrave that thought above the terraces of such a heavenly garden. Other Italian palaces had^ lH^ewtse, severe things written on their sunward faces ^ or on their garden dials, 'But, sombre or genial, the sundial motto, devised according to the appropriate art, has the beauty of brevity and fulness. No wonder if to the precision of Latin grammar has been generally assigned the safeguarding of the message of three or four words, long, slow J and complete with their burden of meaning.

There are tunes composed for bells, and as this brief music, so is this brief literature^ restricted to the means and the opportunity, and full of vigour within those bonds. The phrase and the melody both ha'^e their home on the happy Ligurian coast. For though sundials

SUNDIALS, number the few serene hours of Northern gardens, they are most useful in the South and the sun, and because of their use they tak^ their place in the noble symbolic company standing by palace walls: the sundial for time, the cypress for deaths wheat for lifcy and the vine for joy.

xu

TO EDWIN GREENE,

A BOOK OF SUNDIAL MOTTOES,

In compiling this Book of Mottoes, the translations in the majority of cases appear as given in the books consulted. These volumeSf which represent a delightful branch of garden literature, range from John Wells' " Sciographia, or the An of Shadowes" (7635), to Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's recently published " Sundials and Roses of Yesterdayy

It will be seen that in ?nany instances the English renderings of the inscriptions are free and often fanciful.

A.H.H.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

'T^HE following Sixty "Mottoes for Dials, with their

•^ meaning in English," are from a curious and rare

old work, entitled " Mechanick Dialling: or, the

New Art of Shadows: freed from the many

Obscurities, Superfluities and Errors of Former Writers

upon this Subject ... To which are added a choice

Collection of Mottos in Latin and English ... By Charles

Leadbetter. London, at the Black Swan, 1737."

A

LIIS . INSERVIENDO . CONSUMOR.

(My . LOSS . IS . YOUR . gain).

A BOOK OF

Ars.

LONGA , VITA . BREVIS.

(l . DIE . TO-DAY . AND . LIVE . TO-MORROW).

/ilVARITIA . HODIE . DOMINATUR.

(you . COVET . to-morrow).

A

UT . C^SAR . AUT . NIHIL,

(l . SHINE . OR . shroud).

EE, . AND . BE . GONE . ABOUT . YOUR BUSINESS.

c

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

IJULLA . EST . VITA . HUMANA. (life's . A . bubble).

ONSUME . NOT . THY . TIME . IN . IDLENESS.

JLJeUS . ADEST . LABORANTIBUS.

(heaven . FAVOURS . THE . DILIGENT).

JLJlSCE . DIES . NUMERARE . TUOS.

(learn . TO . VALUE . YOUR . TIME);

A BOOK OF

JLJiSCE . BENE . VIVERE . & . MORI.

(shine . AND . set).

UlES . DIEM . TRUDIT.

(a , DAY . KICKS . ME . DOWN).

UuM . SPECTAS . FUGIO.

(UNSIGHT, . UNSEEN).

En

SUPRA . VITA . FUGAX . EN . INFRA . CERTA . MORS.

(a . LIFE . ON . flight's . SOON . OUT . OF . SIGHT).

E

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

X . HOC . MOMENTO . PENDET . ^TERNITAS.

(now . OR , never).

Jr ESTINA . LENTE.

(mind . MY . movements),

)l ORTUNA . URBES . AMPLISSIMAS . EVERTIT.

(no . EXEMPTION . FROM , MY , INFLUENCE).

1* UGIO . FUGE.

(be . GONE . ABOUT . YOUR . BUSINESS. I . STAY . FOR . NO . MAN).

A BOOK OF

H

INC . VIVERE . DISCB. ILLINC . DISCE . MORI.

(rising . PORTENDS . SETTING).

H

H

OMO . QUASI . UMBRA.

(man . is . a . SHADE . OF . A . SHADOW).

ORA . PUGIT . RAPIDE . LETHUMQ; INVADIT . INERMES,

(the . HOURS . GLIDE . SWIFTLY, . AND . THE . UNGUARDED ARE . EASILY . SURPRIZED).

H

ORA . PARS . VITiE.

(every . HOUR . SHORTENS . LIFE).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

iTA . VITA.

(such . IS . life's . HALF . CIRCLE).

L,

rABOR . IPSE . VOLUPTAS .

(my . PAIN . IS . YOUR . pleasure).

LrEX . DEI, . LUX . DIEI.

(the . law . OF . GOD IS . THE . BROAD . DAY-LIGHT).

JL/ET . YOUR . LIGHT. SO . SHINE . BEFORE MEN . THAT . THEY . MAY . SEE . YOUR GOOD . WORKS.

A BOOK OF

LrENTE . SUSCIPE . CITO . PERPICE.

(set . OUT . AT . LEISURE, . PROCEED . WITH . HASTE).

iVioRA . TRAHIT . PERICULUM.

(delay . DRAGS . DANGER).

IN EMO . SINE . CRIMINE . VIVIT.

(the . BRIGHTEST , DAY . HAS . ITS . SHADES).

IN IL . DAT . QUOD . NON . HABET.

(out . OF . NOTHING . COMES . NOTHING).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

IN ON . SEMPER . ERUNT . SATURNALIA.

(take , TIME ; BY . THE . FORELOCK).

N.

ON . NOBIS . NATI . SUMUS.

(we . ARE . NOT . MADE . FOR . OURSELVES).

^3*'^*'*3^

NoN.

SINE . LUMINE. (we . shine).

IN OSCE . TEIPSUM.

(look . INTO . THY . SELF).

A BOOK OF

IN ULLA . DIES . SINE . LINEAi

(every . DAY . HAS . ITS . BOUNDS).

vJmNEM . CREDE . DIEM . TIBI . DILUXISSE SUPREMUM.

(believe . EVERY . DAY . TO . BE , THY . LAST).

vJmNIA . FALCE . METIT . TEMPUS.

(the . SCYTHE , OP . TIME . CARRIES . A . KEEN . EDGE).

1 EREUNT . & . IMPUTANTUR.

(the . HOURS , VANISH, . YET . ARE . ON . RECORD).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

*

1 AX . OPTIMA . RERUM.

(light . IS . THE . PARENT . OF . PEACE).

1 OST . VOLUPTATEM . MISERICORDIA.

(pleasure . IS . THE . PARENT . OF . PAIN ; . NIGHT . TREADS UPON . THE . HEELS . OF . DAY).

V/UALIS . VITA, . FINIS . ITA.

(praise . A . FAIR . DAY . AT . NIGHT).

V^UOD . TIBI . FIERI . NON . VIS, . ALTERI NE . FECERIS.

(do . NOT . RENDER . EVIL . FOR . GOOD). 11

A BOOK OF

VJUA . REDIT . NESCITIS . HORAM.

(ye . KNOW . NOT . THE . HOUR).

V^UID . CELERIUS . TEMPORE?

(what . IS . SWIFTER . THAN . TIME ?)

OlC . VITA. (life's . lot).

OlG . TRANSIT . GLORIA . MUNDI.

(so . MARCHES . THE . GOD . OF . DAY).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

OiNE . LUMINE . INANE.

(darkness . PRECEDES . DAY).

OlC . PRETERIT . .ETAS. (life . IS . winged).

1 EMPUS . AD . LUCEM . DUCIT . VERITATEM,

(time . BRINGS . TRUTH . TO . LIGHT).

i EMPUS . OBIT, . MORS . VENIT.

(time . dibs, . DEATH . REIGNS).

A BOOK OF

1 EMPUS . FUGIT. (time . hastes).

V EMPUS . VITiE . MONITOR. (time . IS . life's . remembrancer).

1 ENERE . NON . POTES . NEC . PERDBRE.

(you . cannot . KEEP . IT, . NOR . LOSE . IT).

U MBRA . DEI.

(the . WORKMANSHIP . OF . THE . GREAT . ARCHITECT).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

U T . UMBRA . SIC . VITA. (shade . IS . life's . pattern).

V ENIO . UT ."^UR.

(l . STEAL . UPON . you).

IGILATE . & . ORATE, . TEMPUS . FUGIT.

(watch . AND . PRAY, . TIME . HASTES . AWAY).

V lA . VIT^. / (life's . road).

15

A BOOK OF

V ITA . NOSTRA . EST . INSTAR . COMCEDIiE.

(life . OFTEN . CHANGES . SCENES).

V ERITAS . TEMPORIS . FILIA.

(time . THE . FATHER . OF . TRUTH).

W ELCOME . CHAPMAN.

*0N A DIAL IN A MARKET PLACE.

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SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

L

ET . OTHERS . TELL . OF . STORMS . AND SHOWERS, I'LL . ONLY . COUNT . YOUR . SUNNY . HOURS.

(the motto chosen by queen ALEXANDRA FOR THE SUNDIAL AT SANDRINGHAM).

A BOOK OF

U:

NITED . IN . TIME, . PARTED . IN . TIME, TO . BE . REUNITED, . WHEN . TIME . SHALL . E NO . MORE.

(in the king's garden, holyrood, on the dial presenti

BY CHARLES I. TO QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA).

j\s> . TIME . AND . HOURES . PASSET

AWAYE. SO . DOETH . THE . LIFE . OF . MAN . DECAY] AS . TIME . CAN . BE . REDEEMED . WITH . N

COST, BESTOW . IT . WELL . AND . LET . NO . HOUR

BE . LOST.

(on a RING dial).

i RANSEUNT . DIES . TUI.

(thy . days . ARE . passing).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

1 O . NO . ONE . IS . GIVEN . RIGHT . OF

DELAY, NOTED . IN . HEAVEN . PASSETH . EACH . DAY; BE . THOU . NOT . FRUITLESS, . WORK . WHILE

YE . MAY, TRIFLING . WERE . BOOTLESS, . WATCH . THOU

AND . PRAY.

^^v^^v^^v

T,

HESE . SHADES . SO . FLEET FROM . DAY . TO . DAY. AND . SO . THIS . LIFE PASSETH . AWAIE.

V T . HORA . PRAETERITA . SIC . FUGIT . VITA.

(as . THE . HOUR . THAT . IS . PAST, . SO . LIFE . FLIBS).

19

\

A

A BOOK OF

S . SHADOWE . SO . MAN . SPEBDETH.

i IME . TIDE DOTH . WAIST THEREFORE MAKE . HASTE WE . SHALL.

Y

«3*«3*«9*

U

T . HORA . FUGIT . VITA.

(as . AN .HOUR . LIFE . FLIES).

OU . MAY . WASTE . BUT . CANNOT . STOI ME.

(on an old church at tunbridoe wells).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

J\s . THE . SUNE . RUNS . SO . DEATH COMES.

J\s . TIME . AND . HOURS . PASSBTH . AWAY SO . DOUTH . THE . LIFE . OP . MAN . DECAY.

i RANSEUNT . ET . IMPUTANTUR.

(they . PASS . AND . ARE . RECKONED).

B

J^J^Jf'

RIGHT . SOL . AND . LUNA . TIME . AND TIDE . DOTH . HOLD.

A BOOK OF IJON . JOUR—BON . SOIR.

A,

.S . THESE . HOURS . DOTH . PASS . AWAY, SO . DOTH . THE . LIFE . OF . MEN . DECAY. MEMENTO . MORI.

A

DAY . MAY . RUIN . THEE. . IMPROVE THIS . HOUR.

A.D. . MDCCXXXII.

1 HE . HOUR . NOW . SHOWN . PERHAPS MAY . BE . THY . LAST, REPENT . AND . PRAY . BEFORE . THAT . HOUR BE . PAST.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

1 HIS . FOURFOLD . INDEX . OF . SWIFT

TIME ON . WHICH . YE . SHADOW . VEERETH

ROUND, SHOULD . MAN . EXCITE . TO . THEMES . SUB-

LIME. SINCE . NOUT . BUT . SHADOWS . HERE . ARE

FOUND.

IjEHOLD . NOW . IS . THE . ACCEPTED

TIME.—(2 . Cor. . vi. . 2). SEEK . YE . THE . LORD . WHILE . HE . MAY

BE . FOUND.—(IsA. . Lv. . 6).

V IRTUE . JOIN . PRECIOUS . TIME.

i HUS . ETERNITY . APPROACHETH. 23

A BOOK OF

V-^ERTA . I^TIO.

(a . SURE . reckoning).

i\sPICE . IN . HORAM, . ET . MEMENTO . MORI.

(look . ON . THE . HOUR . AND . REMEMBER . DEATH).

i RIFLE . NOT, . YOUR . TIME'S . SHORT.

i IME . CAN . DO . MUCH. 24

T

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

AeTAS . RAPIET . DIEM.

(time . WILL . HURRY . THE . DAY . AWAY).

V ER . NON . SEMPER . VIRIT.

(spring . IS . NOT . ALWAYS . GREEN).

1MB , IS . MORE . SACRED . THAN . GOLD, xVeTAS . CITO . PEDE . PRAETERIT.

(AGB . PASSES . WITH . SWIFT . POOT).

A BOOK OF

1 HUS . THE . GLORY . OF . THE . WORLD PASSES . AWAY.

T,

^^f^^2^^2^

IME . AS . THE . DIAL . TO . THE . SUN. ALTHOUGH . IT . BE . NOT . SHONE . UPON.

D

^r^^r^^^r^

UM , LOQUIMUR . FUGERIT . INVIDA . .ETAS, CARPE . DIEM , QUAM . J^INIME . CREDULA POSTERO.

(while , SPEAKING . SO . ENVIOUS . TIME . HAS . FLOWN, SEIZE . TO-DAY, . LITTLE . TRUST . THE . MORROW).

OUB . SOLE . VANITAS.

UNDER . THE . SUN . VANITY). 26

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

1 OST . TENEBRAS . SPERO . LUCEM.

(after . DARKNESS . HOPE . FOR . LIGHT).

JL'HEURE . PASSE, . L'AMITIE . RESTE.

(the . HOUR . PASSES, . FRIENDSHIP , STAYS).

V^'EST . L'HEURE . DE . BIEN . FAIRE.

(this . IS . THY . FORTUNATE . HOUR).

IVi lA . VITA . E . IL . SOLE: . DELI/UM . LA

VITA . E . DIO. SENZA . ESSO . E . L'UM, . QUAL . SENZA . SOL

SON* . 10.

(monastery near Florence). 27

A BOOK OF

OILENS . LOQUOR.

(though . SILENT, . I . SPEAk).

IVl ICAT . IN . TENEBRIS ; LUX . JUSTORUM.

(unto . the . upright . there . ariseth . light . in . the darkness).

S

T,

INE . SOLE . SILEO. (without . SUN . I. keep . silence).

HE . HOUR . THOU . READEST . NOW . ON

ME. WILL . NEVER . MORE . BE . OFFERED . THEE; IP . THOU . TAK'ST . HEED . WISE . THOU

WILT . BE.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

To

MORROWS . HOURS . MAY . BE . LESS FORTUNATE.

^^w^^w^^w

u

I

T ; FILII . LUCIS . INCEDITE.

(walk . AS . CHILDREN . OP . LIGHT).

OlNE . UMBRA . NIHIL.

(without . SHADOW . NOTHING).

. SEEK . MY . LIGHT . FROM . GOD.

A BOOK OF

O

H . EARLY . PASSENGER, . LOOK . UP, . BE WISE, AND . THINK . HOW . NIGHT . AND . DAY . TIME EVER . FLIES.

T

f^r^^^Mf^r^

IME'S . A . HAND'S . BREADTH; . 'TIS TALE; 'TIS . A . VESSEL . UNDER . SAIL; 'TIS . AN . EAGLE , IN . ITS . WAY, DARTING . DOWN . UPON . ITS . PREY; 'TIS . AN . ARROW . IN . ITS . FLIGHT, MOCKING . THE . PURSUING . SIGHT.

OOL . DEUS . VISIBILIS DEUS . SOL . INVISIBILIS.

(the . SUN . IS . THY . VISIBLE . GOD, GOD . THE . INVISIBLE . SUN).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

1 N . LUCE . TUA . FRUAMUR . LUCE.

(in . THY . LIGHT . SHALL . WE . SEE . LIGHT).

I'll . LIVE . TO-MORROW, . YOU . DELAYING

CRY, IN . WHAT . FAR . COUNTRY . DOES . TO-MORROW

LIE?

1 HE . LEARNED . LINE . SHOWETH . THE CITY'S • HOUR.

(on a SUNDIAL IN MILAN).

Lux . HUJUS . SOLIS . VOBIS . INDICABIT HORUM.

(this . sun's . LIGHT . WILL . SHOW . THE . HOUR).

A BOOK OF

O

LD . FATHER . TIME . STANDS . STILL . FOR

NONE; THIS . MOMENT . HERE, . THE , NEXT . HE'S

GONE; AND . THOUGH . YOU ; SPEAK . HIM . NE'ER

SO . KIND, HE . NEVER . LAGS . ONE . STEP . BEHIND; IF, . THEN, . WITH . TIME . YOU'D . FORWARD

BE, YOU . E'EN . MUST . RUN . AS . FAST . AS . HE.

1 HE .

DAY . IS . THINE.

U

NAM . TIME.

(fear . ONE . hour).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

U

NA . HARUM . VVYm . HORARUM ERIT ULTIMA;

A

J^J^J^

BSQUE . SOLE, . ABSgUE . USU.

(without . SUN, . WITHOUT . USE).

T

IME . WASTED . IS . EXISTENCE, . USED IS . LIFE.

T,

HAT . SOLAR . SHADOW, . AS . IT . MEASURES LIFE, IT . LIFE . RESEMBLES . TOO.

33 D

/

A BOOK OF

As. A.

A

SHADOW . SUCH . IS . LIFE.

q^^t2r^^^

U LTIMA . DECIDET.

(the . LAST . decides).

(at ventimiglia).

^T^^r^^^T^

. SPAN . IS . ALL . THAT . WE . CAN BOAST,

AN . IN9H . OR ; SO . OF . TIME: MAN . IS .BUT . VANITY . AND . DUST IN , ALL ^ HIS , FLOWER . AND . PRIME.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

Oe . THANKFUL, . WATCH, ; PRAY, . WORK. jtVsPICE . ME.

(look . UPON . he).

As.

THE , SHADE . IS, . SO . IS . LIFE.

A.

LUMINE . MOTUS.

(moved . BY . light).

A BOOK OF

OHADOW . AND . SUN—SO . TOO . OUR . LIVES

ARE . MADE— YET . THINK . HOW . GREAT . THE . SUN,

HOW . SMALL . THE . SHADE.

iVlEN . DO . BLAME . TIME, . WHILE . IT

THEY . SPEND UNTO . NO . PURPOSE, . OR . TO ; A . BAD . END.

1 HERE . IS . A . SEASON . FOR . EVERYTHING. OOL . TEMPORA . DIVEDIT . ^VI.

. (the . SUN . DIVIDES . THE . SEASONS . OF . TIME).

\

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

jnLSPICE . ET . ABI.

(gaze . AND . PASS . ON).

1 IME'S . GLASS . AND . SCYTHE THY . LIFE . AND . DEATH . DECLARE. SPEND . WELL . THY . TIME AND . FOR . THY . DEATH . PREPARE.

T,

HE . GAY . WHO . WOULD . BE . COUNTED

WISE, THINK . ALL . DELIGHT . IN . PASTIME . LIES.— NOR . HEED . THEY . WHAT . THE . WISE

CONDEMN, WHILST . THEY . PASS . TIME, . TIME . PASSES

THEM.

A BOOK OF

OENZA . PALAR . DA . TUTTI . SON . INTESO. SENZA . PALESO . FAR . RUMOR . L'ORA.

(without . SPEAKING , I . AM . UNDERSTOOD . BY . ALL. WITHOUT . A . NOISE . I . REVEAL . THE . HOUR).

I

^3*'^^^''

T . IS ; LATER . THAN . YOU . THINK.

^3^<3^<^^

R,

EAD . ON . THIS . DIAL . HOW . THE

SHADOWS . DEVOUR MY . SHORT-LIVED . WINTER'S . DAY. . HOUR

EATS . UP . HOUR ALAS I . THE . TOTAL'S . BUT . FROM . EIGHT

TO . FOUR.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

V OS . ESTIS . LUX . MUNDI.

(ye . ARE . THE , LIGHT . OF . THE . WORLD).

M

^^^^^^

AKE . THE . PASSING . SHADOW . SERVE THY . WILL.

n^^Jff

T,

HOU . BY . THE . DIAL'S . SHADY . STEALTH MAYST . KNOW TIME'S . THIEVISH . PROGRESS . TO . ETERNITY.

(Shakespeare's sonnet lxxvh.)

A BOOK OF

OENZA . L'UMBRA . NON . DILETTO, E . PUR . L'UMBRA . E .- MIO . DIFETTO.

(without . A . SHADOW . I . PLEASE . NOT, AND . YET . A . SHADOW . IS . MY . DEFECT).

^^r^^^^^^r^

L.

HIS . OWN . IMAGE . THE . CREATOR

MADE, HIS . OWN . PURE . SUNBEAM . QUICKENED

THEE—O . MAN I THOU . BREATHING . DIAL! . SINCE . THY

NAME . BEGAN THE . PRESENT . HOUR . WAS . EVER . MARKED

BY . SHADE.

I

. NOTE . THE . TIME . THAT . YOU . WASTE. 40

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

N HEN . THOU . DOST . LOOK . UPON . MY

FACE, rO . LEARN . THE . TIME . OF . DAY, IINK . HOW . MY . SHADOW . KEEPS . ITS

PACE, VS . THY . LIFE . FLIES . AWAY. KE, . MORTAL, . THIS . ADVICE . FROM . ME VND . SO . RESOLVE . TO . SPEND [Y . LIFE . ON . EARTH, . THAT . HEAVEN

SHALL . BE [Y . HOME, . WHEN . TIME . SHALL . END.

(in county KERRY, IRELAND).

IN OW . IS . YESTERDAY'S . TO-MORROW.

W HILST . PHGEBUS . ON . ME . SHINES. ^HEN . VIEW . MY . SHADE . AND LINES.

A BOOK OF

IFE'S . BUT . A . SHADOW MAN'S . BUT . DUST; THIS . DIALL . SAYS DY . ALL . WE . MUST.

t^^t2^t^^

I

O . VADE . E . VENGO . OGNI . GIORNO MA . TU . ANDRAI . SENZA . RITORNO.

(l . GO . AND . COME . EVERY . DAY,

BUT . THOU . SHALT . GO . WITHOUT . RETURNING).

(in a RIVIERA garden).

I

N . CCELO . QUIES.

(in . HEAVEN . IS . REST).

42

T

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

V^UI . LABORAT . ORAT.

(who . WORKS . prays), (in LAYLAND churchyard, LANCASHIRE).

RANSIT . UMBRA, . LUX . PERMANET.

(shadow . PASSES . LIGHT . STAYS).

A

MOMENT—MARK . HOW . SMALL . A

SPACE THE . DIAL . SHOWS . UPON . THE . PACE; YET . WASTE . BUT . ONE—AND . YOU . SEE OP . HOW . GREAT . MOMENT . IT . CAN . BE.

(at oxford on a dial BEARING THE ARMS OF THE EARL OF WHARTON, 1691—1702).

A BOOK OF

VV HAT . THOU . SEEKEST . IS . A . SHADOW.

X EREUNT . ET . IMPUTANTUR.

(they . PASS . AND . ARE . RECKONED).

1 . STAND . ON . EARTH.

T

EMPORA . LABUNTUR . QU^ . NOBIS PEREUNT . ET . IMPUTANTUR.

(time . GLIDES . BY, . WHICH . PERISHES . FOR . US . AND . IS

reckoned).

(at adlington).

M

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

ARK . THE . MOMENTS . TROD . FOR GOOD . OR . ILL.

(on WARWICK priory).

OE . IL . SOLE i SI . VEDE NESSUN . MI . CREDE.

(if i THE . SUN . SHINES . NOT NONE . WILL . BELIEVE . IN . ME).

Sb.

NON . RILUCE . IL . SOLE, . NESSUM MIA . GUARDA.

(if . NO . SUN . SHINES, . NO . ONE . LOOKS . AT . ME).

IVEDEEM . YE . TIME. 45

A BOOK OF

A

I

FTER . DARKNESS, . THE . LIGHT. OlCUT . UMBRA.

.(as . A . shadow).

'M . GOING . WHERE . TIME . FOLLOWS NOT—WHERE . IS . ETERNITY.

^^^^^^

V,

IVERE . DISCE. COGITA . MORI.

(lEARM . HOW . TO . LIVE THINK . HOW . TO . DIE).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

OIC . VITA . TRANSIT.

(so . PASSES . life).

^^^^^F^^T^

Oic .

FORTUNA . VOLUTAT.

(so . FORTUNE . TURNETH).

Wb.

MAY . NOT . STAY.

f^r^^^r^^^^

i HE . SILENT . SHADOW . SPEAKS. DOST , THOU . HEED?

A BOOK OF

OOLAREM . SIGNAT . LINEA . PICTA . VIAM.

(the . PAINTED . LINE . MARKS . THE . SUN's . PATH),

V,

IVITE, . AIT, . FUGIO.

(" LIVE . YE " . IT . SAYS *. . " I . FLY ").

S

INGE . EVERY . ONE . HATH, . EVERY . ONE, ONE . SHADE, AND . YOU, . BUT . ONE, . CAN . EVERY SHADOW . LEND.

(sHAKESPEARE's SONNET LIII.)

T

IME . IS . THE . MONITOR . OF . LIFE. 48

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

Ol . SOL . DEFICIET . NEMO . NE . ASPICIET.

(IP . THE . SUN . PAILS, . NO . ONE . WILL . LOOK . ON . MB).

JlIhEU . FUGACES . LABUNTUR . ANNI.

— Horace,

(so . THE . PLBETING . YEARS . GO . BY).

V IVENS . MORTALIS.

(he . THAT . LIVES . IS . MORTAL).

Allez . vous.

(pass . on).

A BOOK OF

TER . ENIM . JUSTORUM . SIMILE . EST . LUCI SPLENDID^, . PERGENTI . LUCERE: ADEO . UT . CORUM . QUISQUE . SIT STABILIS . DIE.

(the . PATH . OF . THE . JUST . IS . AS . THE . SHINING

LIGHT, . THAT . SHINETH . MORE . AND . MORE . UNTO . THE

PERFECT . day).

OHADOW . AND . SHINE . IS . LIFE.

(tENNYSON's " GRANDMOTHER ").

JL^IFE . IS . A . VAIN . SHADOW.

OHORT . THE . DAY . AND . GREAT . THE WORK.

50

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

OEE . THE . LITTLE . DAY-STAR . MOVING LIFE . AND . TIME . ARE . WORTH . IMPROVINGi SEIZE . THE . MOMENTS, . WHILE . THEY STAY: SEIZE . AND . USE . THEM LEST . YOU . LOSE . THEM AND . LAMENT . THE . WASTED . DAY.

^^v^^w^^v

A,

.MENDE . TO-DAY . AND . SLACK . NOT, DETHE . COMETH . AND . WARNETH . NOT, TYME . PASSETH . AND . SPEKETH . NOT.

^2f^^^9^^

u^

T . VITA . FINIS . ITA.

(as . LIFE . IS . SO . IS . ITS . END). (on the tower of CHELSEA OLD CHURCH).

A BOOK OF

IJEGONE . ABOUT . YOUR . BUSINESS.

1 IME . WAS, . IS . PAST; . THOU . CANST

NOT . IT . RECALL: TIME . IS, . XHOU . HAST; . EMPLOY . THE

PORTION . SMALL: TIME . FUTURE . IS . NOT; . AND . MAY . NEVER

BE: TIME . PRESENT . IS . THE . ONLY . TIME . FOR

THEE.

w

ATCH . AND . PRAY. IVESPICITIE, . NON . MIHI . SOLE . LABORAVI.

(mark . YE, . NOT , FOR . MYSELF . ONLY . HAVE . I . TOILED).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

1 IME . FLIES. . LINES . RISE . AND SHADOWS . FALL. LET . IT . PASS . BY. LOVE . REIGNS . FOR . EVER . OVER . ALL.

1 . WAKEN . WITH . THE , RISING . SUN, AND . SLEEP . WHEN . HIS . LONG . COURSE . IS RUN.

J\ . CLOCK . THE . TIME . MAY . WRONGLY

TELL; I, . NEVER, . IF . THE . SUN . SHINES . WELL.

OHADOWS . 'ARE . WE . AND . LIKE SHADOWS . DEPART.

A BOOK OF

WmNIA . PERT . ^TAS.

(time . BRINGS . ALL . THINGS).

JUaMNOSA . QUID . NON . IMMINUIT . DIES?

(what . IS . THERE . WASTING . TIME . DOES . NOT . IMPAIR ?)

— From Horace,

(on a SUNDIAL IN A VENETIAN GARDEN).

i HE . UTMOST . FOR . THE . HIGHEST.

(the MOTTO ON THE SUNDIAL BELONGING TO G. F. WATTS, R.A., AT HIS RESIDENCE, LIMNERSLEASE, COMPTON).

JL/IVE . TO-DAY. 54

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

T

HY . DIAL ... WILL . SHOW . HOW . THY PRECIOUS . MINUTES . WASTE.

(Shakespeare's sonnet lxxvii.)

V,

ADAM . ET . REVERTAR.

(l ♦ SHALL . GO . AND . RETURN).

Induce . animum . sapientbm.

(take . TO . THYSELF . A . WISE . WORD).

OOL . REGIT . OMNIA.

(the . SUN . RULES . ALL).

A BOOK OF

L,

EARN . TO . VALUE . YOUR . TIME.

J\ ONE . CAN . CALL . AGAIN . THE . PASSED

TIME;

OHINING . SPOT . FOR . EVER . SHINING BRIGHTEST. HOURS . HAVE . NO . ABIDING. USE . THY . GOLDEN . MOMENTS . WELL.

LIFE . IS . WASTING

DEATH . IS . HASTING. DEATH . CONSIGNS . TO . HEAVEN . OR . HELL.

V IVE . MEMOR . LETHI, . FUGIT . HORA,

(live . RBMBMBBRINO . DBATH, . THE . HOUR . PLIBS).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

OOL . GLORIA . MUNDI.

(the . SUN . IS . THE . WORLD's . GLORY).

InIMICUM . TIBI? . QUARE . FACIEM . TUAM ABSCONDAS, . ET . REPUTES . ME.

(wherefore . HIDEST . THOU . THY . FACE . AND . H0LDB8T ME . THINE . ENEMY ?)

V ENI, . VIDE, . VALE.

(come, . SEE, . farewell).

JtlfVERY . DAY . BRINGS . LIFE . NEARER.

A BOOK OF

W HAT . IS . YOUR . SUBSTANCE, . WHEREOF ARE . YOU . MADE, THAT . MILLIONS . OF . STRANGE . SHADOWS ON . YOU . TEND?

(Shakespeare's . sonnet . liii).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

Ux.

o

FILII . LUCIS . INCEDITE.

(walk . AS . CHILDREN . OF . LIGHT).

OLAT . TEMPUS. (time . turns).

V,

MNES . VOS . FILII . LUCIS . ESTIS, . AC FILII . DIEI: . NON . SUMUS . FILII NOCTIS, . NEQUE ; TENEBRARUM.

(ye . ARE . ALL . THE . CHILDREN ' OF ; LIGHT, . AND . THB

CHILDREN . OF . THE . DAY ; . WE . ARE . NOT . OF . THB

NIGHT, . NOR . THE . DARKNBSS).

I

USTUM . ET . iEQUUN.

(just . AND . FAIR).

A BOOK OF

R

ETAIN . YOUR . LOYALTY, . PRESERVE YOUR . RIGHTS.

JLyiES . AD . DIEM . EURETAT . SERMONEM.

(day . UNTO . DAY . UTTERETH . SPEECH).

OAPIENTIS . EST . NUMERARE.

(it . IS . THE . WISE . WHO . NUMBER).

W ELL . ARRANGED . TIME . IS . THE SUREST . SIGN . OF . A . WELL ARRANGED . MIND.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

RIT . NOMEN . EJUS . IN . SECULUM. DURANTE . SOLE.

(his . NAME . SHALL . ENDURE . FOR . EVER, . HIS . NAME SHALL . BE . CONTINUED . AS . LONG . AS . THE . SUN).

V-/'EST . L'HEURE . DE . BOIRE.

(this . IS . THE . HOUR . FOR , DRINKING). (on AN INN AT LILBOURNE).

Ah.

WHAT . IS . HUMAN . LIFE! HOW . LIKE . THE . DIAL'S . TARDY . MOVING

SHADE: DAY . AFTER . DAY . GLIDES . BY . US

UNPERCEIVED, YET . SOON . MAN'S , LIFE . IS . UP . AND . WE

ARE . GONE.

A BOOK OF

D

D

EUS . ADEST . LABORANTIBUS.

(god . STANDS . BY . THE . WORKER).

JLoOSE . NO . TIME.

I ALL (loq.) STAIE, . PASSINGER

TELL . ME . MY . NAME, THY . NATVRE.

PASS, (resp.) thy . NAME . IS . DIE

ALL. I . AM . A . MORTALL CREATVRE.

DIALL (loq.) since . MY . NAME

AND . THY . NATVRE

SO . AGREE, THINK . ON . THY . SELFE WHEN . THOU . LOOKST VPON . ME.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

In . VIIS . TUIS i RESPLENDEBIT . LUX,

(the . LIGHT . SHALL . SHINE . UPON . THY . WAYS).

WLD . TIME . IS . STILL . A-FLYING.

— Herrick,

AnNON . PAULISPER . DIEBUS . MEIS CESSABIT ?

(are . NOT . MY . DAYS . FEW ?)

1 EMPUS . ACCEPTUM.

(now . IS . THE . ACCEPTED . TIME).

A BOOK OF

U TERE . NON . NUMERA.

(employ . THEM, . COUNT . THEM . NOT).

V IVl . BREV'ORE, . INDI . A . SERRAR . VAI GLI . OCCHI.

(live . YOUR . BRIEF . HOUR . THEN . FOR , EVER . CLOSE YOUR . eyes).

lllrT i IPSE . MUTAT . TEMPORA . ET TEMPESTATES.

(he . CHANGETH . the . TIMES . AND . THE . SEASONS).

VV AIT . NOT . FOR . TO-MORROW. 64

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

V^MNIBUS . LUCET.

(the . LIGHT . SHINES . FOR . ALL).

^^F^^^T^^^^

o

NLY . AS . I . ABIDE . IN . THE . LIGHT OF . HEAVEN DO . I . FULFIL . THE . WILL . OF . MY . MAKER.

T

HE . SHADOW • OF . THE . ETERNAL. 1 N . HORA . NULLA . MORA.

(in . THE . HOUR . IS . NO . DELAY).

A BOOK OF

i N . GOD'S . GOOD . TIME.

o

D

PPOSTO . DI . ME— PENSI . DI . TE.

(think . NOT . OF . ME

THINK . OF . thyself).

ISCE . DIES . NUMERARE . TUOS.

(learn . TO . NUMBER . THY . DAYS).

W

ITH . MY . SHADOW . MOVES . THl WORLD.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

Y,

ESTERDATS . GONE, . TO-DAY . IS . HERB, TO-MORROW . NEVER . MAY . APPEAR.

WUR . LIFE'S . A . FLYING . SHADOW,. GOD'S THE . POLE, DEATH . THE . HORIZON, . WHERE . OUR SUN . IS . SET; THE . INDEX, . POINTING . AT . HIM, . IS . OUR SOUL, AND . WILL ; THROUGH . CHRIST . A RESURRECTION . GET.

(milton church, berks.)

i HEY . (THE . HOURS) . PERISH . AND . ARE NOT . THOUGHT . OF.

67

b

A BOOK OF

1 ER . I . FELICI . ED . I . TRISTI . SEGNO UGUALMENTE . LE . ORE.

(for . THE . HAPPY . AND . THE . SAD . I . MARK . THE . HOURS

alike). IN IL . SINE . NOBIS.

(nothing . EXISTS . WITHOUT . US).

A

.S . SILENT . I . STAND . MID . YE . FLOWERS I . RECKON . ALL . YE . PASSING . HOURS, GAZER, . WHO . LOOKEST . ON . ME . NOW, THE . HOURS . OF . LIFE . DOST . RECKON THOU?

T

HE . HOURS . FLY . FAST . ON . WINGS . OF LIGHT.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

N.

OISELESS . FALLS . THE . FOOT . OF . TIME WHICH . ONLY . TREADS . ON . FLOWERS.

IN ON . REDIBO.

(l . SHALL . NOT . RETURN).

Bb.

WATCHFUL . THOU, . TIME . POSTS AWAY . AMAIN, NOR . CAN . THE . HOUR . THAT'S . PAST RETURN . AGAIN.

IN ON . TARDUM . OPPERIOR

(not . FOR . THE . SLOW . DO . I . TARRY).

A BOOK OP

N

OS . EXIGUUM . TEMPUS . HABEMUS, . SED MULTUM . PERDIMUS.

(a . LITTLE . TIME . HAVE . WE, . BUT . WASTE . MUCH).

N

L

N

OW . OR . WHEN ?

(BEVERLEY MINSTER).

UX . TUA . VITA . MEA.

(thy . LIGHT . MY . LIFE).

OTHING . IS . TRUE . BUT . THE . LIGHT. 70

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

M

ANEO . NEMINI.

(l . WAIT . FOR . none).

VV HEN . THOU . DOST . GAZE . UPON . MY

FACE THINK . THEN . OF . TIME, . HOW . SWIFT

HIS . PACE, AND . THAT. WITH . EVERY . MOMENT . FLOWN THY . OPPORTUNITY . IS . GONE.

iVl EMOR . ESTO . BREVIS . AEVI.

(remember . HOW . BRIEF . IS . LIFE).

M

ISSPEND . NO . TIME. 71

A BOOK OF

T

HE . SHADOW . FLIES . AND . IT . IS . SEEN NO . MORE.

^^v^^v^^w

Mv.

HOURES . ARE . MADE . OF . SUN AND . SHADE TAKE . HEDE . OF . WHAT . YOUR . HOURES BE . MADE.

tSr^Vr^^^^

L

L

IFE . AS . THIS . SHADE DOTH . FLY . AND . FADE.

IFE . IS . SHORT, . TIME . IS . SWIFT, . MUCH IS . TO . BE . DONE.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

LuCEM . DEMONSTRAT . UMBRA. (light . SHOWS . shadow).

JLrUX . DIEI, . LEX . DEI.

(the . light ; OF . DAY, . THE . LAW . OF . GOD).

1 HE . CARELESS . LOOK . AND . DO . NOT HEED, THE . WISE . TAKE . NOTE . AS . ME . THEY READ:

TEMPUS . FUGIT.

LrUX . ET . UMBRA . VICISSIM . SED . SEMPER AMOR.

(light . AND . SHADOW . BY . TURNS . BUT . ALWAYS . LOVB).

A BOOK OF

OO . GLIDES . THE . HOURS, . SO . WEARS

THE . DAY, THESE . MOMENTS . MEASURE . LIFE . AWAY. WITH . ALL . ITS . TRAINS . OF . HOPE . AND

FEAR; TILL . SHIFTING . SCENES . OF . SHADE . AND

LIGHT

RISE . TO . THE . ETERNAL . DAY, . OR . SINK

IN . ENDLESS . NIGHT.

—Dr. Watts,

l\s . TYME . DOTH . HASTE SO . LIFE . DOTH . WASTE.

Ou..

DAYS . DECLINE . LIKE . A . SHADOW.

WUR . TIME'S . AT . HAND. 74

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

I

SHINE . NOT . FOR . ONE . BUT . FOR . ALL. IVl UNDI . OCULUS.

(the . EYE . OF . THE . WORLD).

o

MNIA . SUNT . HOMINUM . PENDENTIA FILO.

(all . THE . THINGS . OF . MAN . HANG . UPON . A . THREAD).

T

HE . SHADOWES . FLOWN;. RETURN . NO MORE.

A BOOK OF

JlLsT . HORA.

(it . IS . THE . hour).

vJrA . NE . TE . ULTIME . FALLAT.

(pray . LEST . THE . LAST . HOUR . COME . UNAWARES).

VERBIS . ET . UMBRA.

(a . CIRCLE . AND . A . SHADOW).

vJrIENS . SOL . ADORNATUR.

(the . RISING . SUN . IS . ADORNED).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

N

OW . MAYEST . THOU . LEARN . FROM . THE PAST.

O

BSERVE . HOW . FAST . TIME . HURRIES

PAST, THEN . USE . EACH . HOUR, . WHILE . IN

YOUR . POWER FOR . COMES , THE . SUN, . BUT . TIME . FLIES

ON, PROCEEDING . EVER . RETURNING . NEVER.

^F^^r^^^

o

F . SHADE . AND . SUNSHINE . FOR . EACH HOUR SEE . HERB . A . MEASURE . MADE: THEN . WONDER . NOT . IF . LIFE . CONSIST OF . SUNSHINE . AND . OF . SHADE.

A BOOK OF

J\vT . DISCE, . AUT . DISCED.

(either . LEARN . OR . GO).

1 HE . SUN . ON . ME . DOTH . SHADOW THROW, WHAT . SHALL . THIS . DAY . THY . MORROW SHOW?

/VfFLICTIS . LENTAE.

(time . IS . SLOW . TO . THE . SORROWFUL).

Le . TEMPS . PASSE, . L'AMITIE . RESTE.

I (time . PASSES, . FRIENDSHIP . STAYS).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES. VjrOD . GIVETH . ALL.

G

IVE . GOD . THY . HEART, . THY . HOPES, THY . SERVICE, . AND . THY . GOLD. THE . DAY . WEARS . ON, . AND . TIME . IS WAXING . OLD.

OPPORTUNITY . HAS . LOCKS . IN . FRONT AND . IS . BALD . BEHIND.

LJlES . SERENUS. SERENUS . SIT . ANIMUS.

(thy . DAYS . BE . BRIGHT. BRIGHT . BE . THY . SPIRIT).

I

A BOOK OF

LJeVS . EST . LUMEN . LUMINIS.

(god . IS . THE . LIGHT . OF . LIGHT).

^£r^^^^^^

WISH . THE . SUN . WOULD . SHINE . ON ALL . MEN'S . FRUITS . AND . FLOWERS AS . WELL . AS : MINE.

(in the garden of belcarres, fife).

^^^^f2f^

GIVE . MEN . WARNING . HOW . THE HOURS . FLY, FOR . MEN . ARE . SHADOWS . AND . A SHADOW . I.

80

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

Mv.

HOURS . ARE . SUMMED . IN . SHINE AND . SHADE ; OF . JOY . AND . SADNESS . MAN'S . ARE MADE.

^F^^2^9£^

H

OW . LONG . IS . TIME ? . ASK . THOU . OP ME; HOW . FLEET . IS . TIME? . I . ASK . OP THEE.

JTlORA, . DIES, . ET , VITA . FUGUINT; MANET . UNICA . VIRTUS.

(the . HOUR, . DAY, . AND . LIFE . ALL . FLY, . ONLY . VIRTUB

remains).

A BOOK OF

C 'K

OOMNO . SUGERE.

(awake . FROM . sleep).

T

H

HIS . IS . YOUR . HOUR, . ACCEPT . IT.

E . THAT . WOULD . THRIVE . MUST . RISE

AT . FIVE. HE . THAT . HATH . THRIVEN . MUST . STAY

TILL . SEVEN, HE . THAT . WILL . NEVER . THRIVE, . MAY . LIE

TILL . ELEVEN.

1 . HAVE . NO . VOICE . AND . YET . I . SPEAK, TAKE . HEED . WHEN . YOU . THE . TIME . DO SEEK.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

I 'AVANCE.

(I . PASS . along).

i RREVOCABILE. (never . to . be . recalled).

I

MPROVE . THE . PRESENT . HOUR, . FOR ALL . BESIDE IS . A . MERE . FEATHER . ON . A . TORRENT'S TIDE.

IcH . DIEN.

(i . serve).

c

A BOOK OF

OUNT . THE . HOURS . AS . ONE . BY . ONE THEY . FLY.

N

^^r^^^^^^Ff

OR . DO . I . BEG . THIS . SLENDER NICHE,

TO . WHILE MY . TIME . AWAY, . OR . SAFELY . TO . BEGUILE MY . THOUGHTS . WITH . JOY,—THERE'S

NOTHING . WORTH . A . SMILE.

A

BUT . DIES, . QUIA . INCLINARUNT . UMBR^ VESPERTIN.E.

(the . DAY . GOETH . AWAY, . AND . THE . SHADOWS . OF . THE EVENING . ARE . STRETCHED . OUT).

OOL . SOLUS . SOLVIT.

(the . SUN . IS ; THE . ONLY . SOLVER). 84

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

OO . PLYS . LIFE . AWAY.

IN ONEO, . DUM . MOVEO.

(l . WARN . AS . I . move).

T,

HE . MOMENT . PAST LAID . MANY . FAST.

IN E . QUID

QUID . PEREAT.

(let . NOTHING . BE . LOST). 85

A BOOK OF

IN IHIL . VOLENTIBUS . ARDUUM.

(to . THE . WILLING . NOTHING . IS . DIFFICULT).

OPLENDETIS . UT . FACES . IN ; MUNDO.

(ye . SHINE . AS . LIGHTS . IN . THE . WORLD).

V EDI . L'ORA . MIA, . E . L'ORA . TUA . NON SAI?

(thou . SEEST . MY . HOUR, . BEHOLDEST . THOU . THINE ?)

1 EMPUS . NON . FORE . AMPLIUS.

(that . THERE . SHOULD . BE . TIME . NO . LONGER).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

JLuX . FATA . EST . JUSTO.

(light . IS . SOWN . FOR . THE . RIGHTEOUS).

^2^t2^^2^

OlC . PETIS . HORA . QUOTA . EST, . DUM PETIS . HORA . FUGIT.

(thou . SEEKEST . THE . HOUR, . WHILE . THOU . SEEKEST, THE . HOUR . flies).

N

^^^^^$^^

OVIT . QUAD . IN . TENEBRIS . EST, . ET LUX . CUM . EO . HABITAT.

(he . KNOWETH . WHAT . IS . IN . THE . DARKNESS, . AND . THB LIGHT . DWELLETH . WITH . HIM).

A BOOK OF

I

. MARK . NOT . THE . HOURS . UNLESS

THEY . BE . BRIGHT, I . MARK. NOT . THE . HOURS . OF . DARKNESS

AND . NIGHT. MY . PROMISE . IS . SOLELY . TO . FOLLOW

THE . SUN AND . POINT . OUT . THE . COURSE . HIS

CHARIOT . DOTH . RUN.

^3^t^^t3^

Oic .

TRANSIT," . SAYEST . THOU? . WELL,

THEN, . LET . IT . PASS I WOULD'ST . BE . A . GLUTTON . AT . THE

FEAST . OF . LIFE, AND . EAT . AND . EAT, . AND . EVER . FILL

THY . GLASS ? WELL-FED, . CONTENT . LAYS . DOWN . HIS

FORK . AND . KNIFE.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES, i_70 . TO-DAY'S . WORK . TO-DAY.

-T OR . IN . AND . OUT, . ABOVE . US . AND BELOW,

TIS . NOTHING . BUT . A . MAGIC . SHADOW-SHOW

PLAYED . IN . A . BOX . WHOSE . CANDLE . IS THE . SUN,

ROUND . WHICH . WE . PHANTOM . FIGURES COME . AND . GO.

— Omar Khayyam,

LrlFE'S . BUT . A . SHORT . DAY, BUT . IT . IS . A . WORKING . DAY.

T,

^J^Jk

IME . FLEETETH . AWAY WITHOUT . DELAY.

A BOOK OF

T,

IME'S . A . TORRENT'S . RAPID . STREAM; TIME'S . A . SHADOW, . TIME'S . A . DREAM; TIME'S . THE . CLOSING . WATCH . OF . NIGHT, DYING . AT . THE . RISING . LIGHT. TIME'S . A . BUBBLE . ON . TIME'S . SEA, USE . TIME . WELL . WHILE . TIME'S . WITH THEE.

T

O

HINK . AND . THANK.

NCE . AT . A . POTENT . LEADER'S . VOICE

I . STAYED; ONCE . I . WENT . BACK . WHEN . A . GOOD

MONARCH . PRAYED; MORTALS, . HOWE'ER . WE . GRIEVE,

HOWE'ER . DEPLORE, THE . PLYING . SHADOW . WILL . RETURN . NO

MORE.

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

i HE . TIME . TO . COME . IS , NO OURS . THAN . THE . PAST.

L

MORE

T

— From the Talmud,

HE . TIME . THOU . KILLEST . WILL . IN TIME . KILL . THEE.

Let . PLEASURE . BE . GRANTED . TO

YOUTH; BUT . SINCE . HUMAN . LIFE . IS . SOON . RUN, AND . HAS . BUT—TO . SPEAK . SOBER . TRUTH-TWO . MOMENTS—LET . WISDOM . HAVE . ONE.

A BOOK OF

H

OURS . FLY, FLOWERS . DIE, NEW . DAYS, NEW . WAYS, PASS . BY; LOVE . STAYS.

Ti^,

1TUR . DIES . DIE NOVAEQUE . PERGUNT . INTERIRE . LUNAE.

(day . DISPLACES . DAY . AND . NEW . MOONS . HASTEN , ONWARD . BUT . TO . fade).

— From Horace,

(on a sundial in a GRECIAN GARDEN).

ivUM . VIVIMUS . VIVAMUS.

(live . WHILE . YOU . LIVE).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

D

ICIMUS . INTEGRO SICCI . MANE . DIE, . DICIMUS . UVIDI, QUUM . SOL . OCEANO . SUREST.

(so . PRAY . WE . SOBER . IN . THE . MORNING, . WHEN . THE

DAY . IS . BEFORE . US ; . SO . PRAY . WE . . , WHEN . THE . SUN

SINKS . BENEATH . THE . OCEAN).

— From Horace,

(on a SUNDIAL IN A GRECIAN GARDEN).

V OLAT . IRREVOCABILIS . HORA.

(flies . THE . HOUR . NEVER . TO . BE . RECALLED).

V

OUS . QUI . PASSE . SOUVENE . VOUS . AU PASSANT . QUE . TOUT . PASSE . COMME JE . PASSE.

(remember . ALL . WHO . PASS, . ALL . THINGS ; PASS . AS . I

pass). 93

A BOOK OF

S

UCH, . SUCH . A . MAN . EXTENDS . HIS LIFE'S . SHORT . SPACE, AND . FROM . the: . GOAL . AGAIN . RENEWS

THE . RACB: FOR . HE . LIVES . TWICE . WHO . CAN . AT

ONCE . EMPLOY THE . PRESENT . WELL, . AND . E'EN . THE PAST . ENJOY.

— From Martial,

JL IME ,

IME . IS TOO . SLOW : FOR i THOSE . WHO . WAIT, TOO . SWIFT . FORI. THOSE . WHO . FEAR, TOO . LONG . FOR THOSE . WHO . GRIEVE,

TOO . SHORT . FC/ BUT . FOR . THO^ ,

. THOSE . WHO . REJOICE; . WHO . LOVE \tIME . IS

Ieternity.

A

SUNDIAL MOTTOES. I 0-DAY . IS . YESTERDAY'S . PUPIL.

DAY . TO . COME . SHOWS . LONGER THAN . A . YEAR . THAT'S . GONE.

»^«j*«^

I

N . SPACE COMES . GRACE.

OOME . COME,— SOME . GO,— THIS . LIFE IS . SO.

A BOOK OF

UR . TEACHERS . ARE . THE . HOURS WHICH . OPEN . OR . CLOSE . THE GATE . OF . HEAVEN.

^^^^^^^

u.

T . MIGRATURUS . HABITA.

(dwell . as . if . ABOUT . TO . DEPART).

Ol . SANS . SOLEIL . VOUS . VIENDREZ, SANS . REPONSE . VOUS . EN . RETOURNEREZ.

(if . WITHOUT . SUN . YOU . COME, WITHOUT . A . REPLY . WILL . YOU . GO).

V IGILANTIBUS

(to . THE . watchful).

96

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

l\.GB . QUOD . AGIS.

(do . WHAT . YOU . ARE . DOINO).

UlSPONENDO . ME, . NON . MUTANDO . ME.

(by . DISPOSING . OF . ME, . NOT . BY . CHANGING . Me).

-T UGIT . IRREPARABILE . TEMPUS.

(irrecoverable . TIME . IS . FLYING . AWAY).

jLJeO . FAVENTE. (with . god's . favour).

A BOOK OF

J\ . LA . BONNE . HEURE. (well-timed).

r AS . EST . EB . AB . HOSTE . DOCERI.

(it . IS . RIGHT . TO . DERIVE . INSTRUCTION . EVEN . FROM . AN

enemy).

OO . TEACH . US . TO . NUMBER . OUR . DAYS THAT . WE . MAY . APPLY . OUR HEARTS . UNTO . WISDOM.

L

BAD, . KINDLY . LIGHT. 98

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

Unto . you . that . fear . my . name shall . the . sun . op . righteousness . arise.

T

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HE . WHIRLIGIG . OF . TIME . BRINGS . IN HIS . REVENGES.

— Shakespeare,

i O . THEM . THAT . MOURN . THE . HOURS ARE . SLOW, BUT . WITH . THE . JOYFUL . SWIFTLY . GO.

As.

WE . USE . THE . HOURS . SO . WILL THE . HOURS . USE . US.

A BOOK OF

1 HE . MOVING . FINGER . WRITES: . ANL

HAVING . WRIT MOVES . ON: . NOR . ALL . THY . PIETY . NOI

WIT SHALL . LURE . IT . BACK , TO . CANCEI

HALF . A . LINE, NOR . ALL . THY . TEARS . WASH . OUT . .

WORD ; OF . IT,

—Omar Khayyan

UlES . MEI . SIMILES . SUNT . UMBR^ INCLINAT^.

(my . DAYS . ARE . LIKE . A . SHADOW . THAT . DECLINETH).

U TERE . NON . REDIT . HORA.

(employ . THE . HOUR, . IT . RETURNETH . NOT).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

R

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EMOVE . NOT . THE . ANCIENT . LANDMARK WHICH . THY . FATHER . HATH . SET UP.

UIA . TEMPUS . QUIDEM . EST . CUIQUE VOLUNTATI.

(there . is . a . TIME . FOR , EVERY . PURPOSE . AND . FOR EVERY . work).

VV HEN . SLOTH . PUTS . URGENT . BUSINESS

BY, "TO-MORROW'S . A . NEW . DAY," . SHE'LL

CRY; AND . ALL . HER . MORROWS . PROVE . IT

TRUE THEY'RE . NEVER , USED, . AND . THEREFORE

NEW.

A BOOK OF

OET . ME . RIGHT . AND . USE . ME . WELL AND . I . THE . TIME . TO . YOU . WILL . TELL.

(on a pocket dial).

OOON . SHALL . THE . SHINING . CIRCLE

CEASE . TO . RUN; SOON . SHALL . TO-MORROW . TURN . TO

YESTERDAY. THAT . KNIFE . OF . SHADOW . CUTTING . IN

THE . SUN CUTS . PATIENTLY . THY . LIGHT . OF . LIFE

AWAY.

U NA , DABIT . QUOD . ALTERA . NEGAT.

(one . HOUR . WILL . GIVE . WHAT . THE . NEXT . DENIES).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

INI AM . JEHOVA . TIBI . ERIT . LUCI PERPETUiE.

(the . LORD . SHALL . BE . THINE . EVERLASTING . LIGHT).

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SE . THE . PRESENT . TIME REDEEM . THE . PAST FOR . THUS . UNCERTAINTY THOUGH . IMPERCEPTIBLY THE . NIGHT . OF . LIFE APPROACHES.

(in ALDINGHAM churchyard, LANCASHIRE).

OTAY . AND . THINK.

(Shakespeare's sonnet lvii.)

A BOOK OF

V OLANO . L'ORE, . I . GIORNI, . GL'ANNI . E

I . MESI.

— Petrarch,

(hours, . DAYS, . MONTHS, . YEARS, . ALL . FLY)

V^OME . IN . TIME.

(on a church at BRADFORD ST. GEORGE, SUFFOLK).

Use.

WELL . THE . PRESENT . MOMENTS

AS . THEY . FLEET, YOUR . LIFE, . HOWEVER . SHORT, . WILL . BE

COMPLETE. IF . AT . ITS . FATAL . ENDING . YOU . CAN

SAY: rVE . LIVED . AND . MADE . THE . MOST . OF

EVERY . DAY.

(in waterfall CHURCHYARD, STAFFORDSHIRE).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

OURGE, . LUCE, . QUANDOQUIDEM . ADVENIT LUX . TUA.

(arise, . SHINE ; . FOR . THY . LIGHT . IS . COME).

1 IME . IS . THE . CHRYSALIS . OF . ETERNITY.

OWIFT . FLY . THE . HOURS . AND . BRIEF THE . TIME

FOR . ACTION . AND . REPOSE:— FAST . FLITS . THIS . SCENE . OF . WOE . AND CRIME,

AND . SOON . THE . WHOLE . SHALL . CLOSa THE . EVENING . SHADOWS . DEEPER . FALL,

THE . DAYLIGHT . DIES . AWAY, WAKE, . SLUMBERER, . AT . THE . MASTER'S

CALL, AND . WORK . WHILE . IT . IS . DAY.

A BOOK OF

U NA . UMBRA . ET . VAPOR . HOMINUM . VITA.

(a . SHADOW . AND . SMOKE . IS . MAN's . LIFE).

(in helston churchyard, Cornwall).

Umbra I . quid . aspicis? . umbram.

(shadow ! . WHAT . SEEST . THOU ? . SHADOW).

Ut . QUI . EXEMPLARI . ET . UMBRiE, DESERVIANT . REUM . CCELESTIUM.

(the . example . AND . SHADOW . OF . HEAVENLY . THINGS).

OICI . VOTRE . HEURE.

(here . IS . YOUR . hour).

106

V,

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

vJ LTIMA . LATET . ET . OBSERVANTUR OMNES.

(the . LAST . [hour] . IS . HIDDEN . AND . ALL . WATCHED).

JLeX . ENIM . UMBRAM . OBTINENS FUTURORUM . BONORUM.

(a . SHADOW . OF . GOOD . THINGS . TO . COME).

1 AMEN . HIS . AEVUM . COMPONITUR UMBRIS.

(time . IS . MADE . UP . OF . SHADOWS).

jf\pUD . QUEM . NON . INEST . TRANSMUTATIO AUT . CONVERSIONIS . OBUMBRATIO.

(with . WHOM . IS . NO . VARIABLENESS . NEITHER . SHADOW OF . turning).

A BOOK OF

JDeING . YOUR . SLAVE, . WHAT . SHOULD . I

DO . BUT . TEND UPON . THE . HOURS . AND . TIMES . OF . YOUR

DESIRE?

— Shakespeare,

V ESTIGIA . NULLA . RETRORSUM.

(there . ARE . NO . STEPS . BACKWARD).

C

URRICULUM . MEUM . PERFICIAM . DONEC ADVENERlkT . DOMINUS.

(l . will . run . my . course , until . the . lord : shall

come).

V,

lA . CRUCIS . VIA . LUCIS.

(the . WAY . OF . THE . CROSS . IS . THE . WAY . OF . LIGHT).

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

W ITH . WARNING . HAND . I . MARK . TIME'S

RAPID . FLIGHT FROM . LIFE'S . GLAD . MORNING . TO . ITS

SOLEMN . NIGHT; YET, . THROUGH . THE . DEAR , GOD'S . LOVE,

I . ALSO . SHOW THERE'S . A . LIGHT . ABOVE . ME . BY . THE

SHADE . BELOW.

(written by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, FOR A SUNDIAL).

UuM . EXSPECTAMUS . LUCEM, . ECCE TENEBR^.

(we . WAIT . FOR . LIGHT, . BUT . BEHOLD , OBSCURITY).

/\mBULEMUS . IN . LUCE . JEHOV^.

(let . us . WALK . IN . THE . LIGHT . OF . THE LORD). 109

A BOOK OF

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ABUNTUR . ANNI . NEC . PIETAS . MORAM RUGIS . ET .. . AFFERET.

(the . FLEETING . YEARS . GLIDE . AWAY, . AND . PIETY . WILL NEVER . BRING . A . CHECK . TO . WRINKLES);

— From Horace*

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U . NUMERI . L'ORE . MA . NON . SAI L'ORA . DELLA . MORTE.

(thou . NUMBEREST . THE . HOURS . BUT . KNOWEST . NOT . THE HOUR . OF . death).

V

ELUT . UMBRA . SUNT . DIES . NOSTRI SUPER . TERRAM.

(our . days . ON . earth . ARE . A . SHADOW). 110

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

W ATCH . FASTER—WATCH . SLOWER

1 UTTE . LE . COSE . PERISCONA, . 10 . SONG IMMORTALE,

(all . THINGS . PERISH, . I . AM . IMMORTAL).

^^^OME, . LIGHT I . VISIT . ME I

(in the GARDEN OF HARRIET MARTINEAU).

lloMO . VANITATI . SIMILIS . EST, DIES . EJUS . SUNT . UT . UMBRA PR^TEREUNTIS.

(man . IS . LIKE . TO . VANITY I . HIS . DAYS . ARE . AS . A . SHADOW THAT . PASSETH . AWAY).

A BOOK OF

UMINARE . MAJUS . AD . PR^FECTURAM DIEI.

(the . GREATER . LIGHT . TO . RULE . THE . DAY).

U

T . UMBRA . QUUM . DECLINAT.

(l . AM . GONE . LIKE . A . SHADOW).

L,

ITTLE ; SUN . UPON . THE . CEILING EVER . MOVING, . EVER . STEALING

MOMENTS, . MINUTES, . HOURS . AWAY. MAY . NO . SHADE . FORBID . THY . SHINING WHILE . THE . HEAVENLY . SUN . DECLINING

CALLS . US . TO . IMPROVE . THE . DAY.

(on a CEILING DIAL AT THEOBALDS).

112

SUNDIAL MOTTOES.

1 AK . TINT , O' . TIME . ERE . TIME . TAK TINT . O' . THEE.

V IX . ORIMUR . ET . OCCIDIMUS.

(scarcely . ARISEN . AND . WE . HAVE . SET).

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IS . ALWAYS . MORNING . SOMEWHERE . IN THE . WORLD.

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IN PRAISE OF SUNDIALS.

IN PRAISE OF SUNDIALS.

WHAT an antique air had the now almost effaced sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming coevals with that Time which they measured, and to take their revelations of its flight immediately from Heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain of light I How would the dark line steal imperceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager to detect its movement, never catched, nice as an evanescent cloud, or the first arrests of sleep! . . .

Ah ! yet doth beauty like a dial hand

Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived I

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dulness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old dial! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost every where vanished ? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance. It spoke of moderate labours, of pleasures not protracted after sunset.

Charles Lamb. — Essays of Elia,

IN PRAISE OF SUNDIALS.

HOW well the skilful gardener drew, Of flowers and herbs, this dial new I Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers ?

Andrew Marvell. — The Garden*

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A DIAL is the Visible Map of Time, till Whose Invention 'twas follie in the Sun to play with a Shadow. It is the Anatomic of the Day and a Scale of Miles for the Jornie of the Sun. It is the silent Voice of Time and without it the Day were dumbe ... It is ye Book of ye Sun on which he writes the Storie of the Day. Lastly, Heaven itself is but a generall Dial, and a Dial it, in a lesser volume.

Robert Hegge. — Heliotropum Sciothericum (1630),

IN PRAISE OF SUNDIALS.

METHINKS it were a happy life . . . To carve out dials quaintly point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run;— How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year. How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known then to divide the times;— ... So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created.

Shakespeare. — Henry VI. (3 part), Act ii,, Scene 5.

THE sundial is a thing of deep sentiment. All feel the beauty and wonder of the thought that Time, that most intangible, most fleeting, most wonderful of conditions, is marked so fittingly in its passing by a shadow almost equally intangible; and the noblest evidences of creations—the stars in the heavens—would be to us invisible and unknown save for their revelation through the shadow of the earth. Mrs. Alice Morse Earle. — Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday,

IN PRAISE OF SUNDIALS.

THE hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much more is snatched from inevitable Time. Let the shadow advance upon the dial—I can watch it with equanimity while it is there to be watched. It is only when the shadow is not there, when the clouds of winter cover it, that the dial is terrible. The nvisible shadow goes on and steals from us . . . These are the only hours that are not wasted—these hours that absorb the soul and fill it with beauty.

Richard Jefferies. — The Pageant of Summer,

THERE is always, to my thinking, a charm about a sundial ... The sacred grey of the aged stone, mellowed by the many years of sun and rain, forms a fair ground for the patterns which our loved lichens have traced upon it, in dark and orange, gold and oxydised silver... The Dial seems a witness with a silent voice, amid the changes of this life, to the lastingness of things. The Author of The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, — On Sundials,

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