is the motto of a Sun-dial near Venice; and the same line is painted in
huge letters over the Sun-dial in front of an old farmhouse near
Farnworth, in Lancashire.
At Hebden Bridge, in Yorkshire, is this quaint motto:
Quod petis, umbra est.
Canon Bowles, in his love of the solemn subject, prescribed the
following, with paraphrastic translations:
_Morning Sun._—Tempus volat.
Oh! early passenger, look up—be wise,
And think how, night and day, _time onward flies_.
_Noon._—Dum tempus habemus, operemur bonum.
Life steals away—this hour, oh! man, is lent thee.
Patient to work the work of Him who sent thee.
_Setting Sun._—Redibo, tu nunquam.
Haste, traveller, the sun is sinking now:
He shall return again, but never thou.
Over the Sun-dial on an old house in Rye: