When I Was A Boy

When I was a boy, My belly was my sundial -- one surer, Truer, and more exact than any of them. This dial told me when 'twas proper time To go to dinner, when I had aught to eat; But nowadays, why even when I have, I can't fall to unless the sun gives leave.

-- Plautus, Against Sundials

[ 26 August 2006 5:58 pm submitted by Unknown ]