Sundial Inscriptions

Sol omnibus lucet
The sun shines on everyone

Sine sole sileo
Without the sun I fall silent

Horas non numero nisi serenas 
I count only the sunny hours

Horas non numero nisi æstivas
I count only the summer hours

Fruere hora
Enjoy the hour

Utere, non numera
Use the hours, don't count them

Utere non reditura
Use the hour, it will not come again

Tempus breve est
Time is short

Serius est quam cogitas
It's later than you think

Mox nox
Night, shortly

Vidi nihil permanere sub sole
I have seen that nothing under the sun endures

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Come light visit me

I stand among the summer flowers
To tell the passage of the hours

To learn the time of day

I am moved by the light

Time flies

I mark the time.
Dost thou?

A day must prime thee,
improve this hour

Lead kindly light

Mark the tremendous process of the sky

Who counted but the hours of light

There's light above me
and shade below

Time passes as a shadow

Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun