Frank Evans wrote:
> > As guidance for Tony Moss's suggestion of verse couplets for
> sundials we
> > could do worse than look at Hilaire Belloc's brief piece: I am a
> > sundial and I make a botch / Of what is done much better by a
> watch.
>
> I feel moved to send my simple sundial's reply to Hilaire Belloc:
>
> So you would say a Sundial's fit to mock
> And put your trust instead in Watch or Clock?
> In me no Spring will break nor Oil grow thick
> Nor Pivot thin and quell the busy Tick;
> The Face of Liquid Crystal soon grows pale
> And Battery's reserves are bound to fail
> My Motion Work's a shadow, which must run
> As silently and even as the SUN
> I'll stand without correction, year on year
> (Save only by Aequation 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
