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Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not, Tyme passeth and speketh not.

As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay.

Begone about your business.

Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old. - Unattributed Author,

If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream; But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.

In the day, do the day's work.

Live ye, he says, I flee.

Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the horizon, when our sun is set, Which will through Christ a resurrection get.

The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.

I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.

"Horas non numero nisi serenas." 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.

I mark my hours by shadow; Mayest thou mark thine By sunshine.

Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.

I count only the hours that are serene.

The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world. - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,

I am moved by the light.