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More sundial mottoes
quoted on David Harber Sundials
As the Shade is so is life
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These Shades so fleet from day to day
And so this life passeth avvaie
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Thou by the dial's Shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 77
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HOW vainly men themselves amaze
To win the Palm, the Oke, or Bayes;
And their uncessant Labours see
Crown'd from some single Herb or Tree,
Whose short and narrow verged Shade
Does prudently their Toyles upbraid;
While all Flow'rs and all Trees do close
To weave the Garlands of repose.
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Andrew Marvell, The Garden
Mean while the Mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness:
The Mind, that Ocean where each kind
Does streight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other Worlds, and other Seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green Thought in a green Shade.
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