That solar shadow,
As it measures life, it life resembles too.
In Brading churchyard, Isle of Wight, on a Sun-dial fixed to what appears originally to have been part of a churchyard cross, is the motto:
Hora pars vitæ.
Near the porch of Milton church, Berks, is:
Our Life’s a flying Shadow; God’s the Pole,
Death, the Horizon, where our sun is set;
The Index, pointing at him, is our Soul,
Which will, through Christ, a Resurrection get.
Butler has this couplet: