OLDEN MOTTOES IN VOGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 28 August 1926, Page 38

OLDEN MOTTOES IN VOGUE.

Sundials have become much the vogue during recent years. The romance of antiquity surrounds them, and they have lived over into this age because of their beauty and ancient associations. In the old days every sundial carried its messages. Here are some which have become axioms: All things do - ix and wane. The longest day must end. Make hay while the sun shines. - There are many quotations worthy and suitable for such inscription. Be true as the dial to the sun. Improve each shining hour. Old. Time is still a-flying. Time wasted is existence; used, is life. Time conquers all. An old dial in a garden of Sussex, England, bears upon its plate these four mottoes, one for each season: After Darkness, Light. Alas! How swift. I warn whilst I move. So passes Life. A dial that stood in the Temple Gardens in London bore in its day a motto said to have been furnished by Lord Bacon. The famous Chancellor was hard at work in his chambers one day when' a student dropped in to ask him for-a motto that might be written upon this sundial which was just then being built. Twice did the student make his request, but the abstracted Chancellor showed no sign of having heard it. The student for the third time repeated his request. Then Lord Bacon looked up and said: "Sirrah, be gone about your business!" "A thousand thanks, my lord," was the reply. "Nothing could be better than that." So, upon the dial was placed that scathing admonition: "Sirrah, be gone about your business I"