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 If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem
 The time for lo! it passes like a dream;
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 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. 
 Hours fly,
 Flowers die.
  New days,
   New ways,
    Pass by.
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 Hours fly,
 Flowers die.
  New days,
   New ways,
    Pass by.
     Love stays. 
 True as the dial to the sun,
 Although it be not shin'd upon.  
 True as the dial to the sun,
 Although it be not shin'd upon. 
 I mark my hours by shadow;
 Mayest thou mark thine
  By sunshine.  
 I mark my hours by shadow;
 Mayest thou mark thine
  By sunshine. 
 Amende to-day and slack not,
 Deythe cometh and warneth not,
  Tyme passeth and speketh not.  
 Amende to-day and slack not,
 Deythe cometh and warneth not,
  Tyme passeth and speketh not. 
 True as the needle to the pole,
 Or as the dial to the sun.  
 True as the needle to the pole,
 Or as the dial to the sun. 
 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your 
wrath: Neither give place to read more 
 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your 
wrath: Neither give place to the devil. 
 The hour of justice does not strike
 On the dials of this world.
  [Fr., L'heure de la read more 
 The hour of justice does not strike
 On the dials of this world.
  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas
   Aux cadrans de ce monde.]
   - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours, 
In the day, do the day's work.
In the day, do the day's work.