Watch-Case Verse

When pocket watches with removable cases were in fashion, you could often find in the outer case a verse placed there by the watchmaker.

Sometimes these verses were so devised as to appear in a circle.

Let’s see if blogger can cope with “round “ verse.

                    Onward,

          Perpetually moving,

  These faithful hands are proving

      How soft the hours steal by;

   This monitory pulse like beating

  Is oftentimes methinks repeating,

    “Swift, swift, the hours do fly!

   Ready! be ready! Perhaps before        

         These hands have made

           One revolution more

            Life’s spring is snapt -

                      You die!”

Sorry,  this is a bit mormid.....and on another sunny spring day.

I’ll try and find a more cheerful one if I can.

(NB Original spelling of snapped)