Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/Inscription on a Sun-dial
Inscription on a Sun-Dial.
Save when the sun's resplendent ray
May gild the passing hour,
To mark the minutes on their way
I lose the ready power.
May gild the passing hour,
To mark the minutes on their way
I lose the ready power.
So only can that time be blest,
And called by man his own,
In which the sunbeam of the breast,
The Conscience, may have shone!
And called by man his own,
In which the sunbeam of the breast,
The Conscience, may have shone!