The Sundial
So you would say a sundial’s fit to mock,
and put your faith instead in watch or clock.
In me no spring will break , nor oil grow thick,
no pivot thin to quell the busy tick.
The face of liquid crystal soon grows pale,
and battery’s reserves are bound to fail.
My motion works a shadow, which must run
as silently and even as the sun.
I’ll stand without correction year on year,
save only for equation known for here.
Though while there’s cloud I’ll rest, and all night sleep,
when bright sun lights me, then true time I’ll keep.
Andrew James
The Sundial Limerick
A sailor who slept in the sun
Awoke with his trousers undone.
He observed with a smile
“Just look...a sundial”
And it's reading a quarter to one"
Pete Swanstrom
I am a sundial. Ordinary words
can not express my thoughts on birds
-oOo-
I am a sundial and I make a botch
Of what is done much better by a watch
-oOo-
I am a sundial turned the wrong way round.
I cost my foolish mistress fifty pound."
All by Hilaire Bellock
