Temple.
_Watch-paper Inscription._--Akin to dial inscriptions are inscriptions on
watch-papers used in the days of our grandfathers, in the outer case of
the corpulent watch now a-days seldom seen. I send you the following one,
which I read many years since; but as I did not copy the lines, I cannot
vouch for their being strictly accurate:
"Onward perpetually moving,
These faithful hands are ever proving
How quick the hours fly by;
This monitory pulse-like beating,
Seems constantly, methinks, repeating,
Swift! swift! the moments fly.
Reader, be ready--for perhaps before
These hands have made one revolution more
Life's spring is snapt--you die!"