You constituted Time－1
I deemed Eternity
A Revelation of Yourself－
'Twas therefore Deity
The Absolute－removed 5
The Relative away－
That I unto Himself adjust
My slow idolatry－
I deemed Eternity
A Revelation of Yourself－
'Twas therefore Deity
The Absolute－removed 5
The Relative away－
That I unto Himself adjust
My slow idolatry－
(F.488/J.765)
[1] Time:: a time-ball, a device to tell the public the standard time.
[2] Eternity:: truth that lasts forever.
[3] Revelation of Yourself:: the exposition of the time-ball.
[4] Deity:: something to be respected highly.
[5] removed:: the time-ball being moved, dropped at certain moment to tell the time. Absolute:: the correct time (known when the ball dropped).
[6] Relative away:: relative time is being adjusted.
[7] adjust:: a hint on a watch, to adjust one's watch.
[8] My slow idolatry:: my slow watch being adjusted by the time-ball.
A time-ball, such as that which Professor Airy called to be constructed at Greenwich, is not merely a clock of wonderful accuracy; it is practically a monster clock, whose indications are visible from a very great distance. . . . On the top of the observatory is a large, hollow, coloured ball, which slides up and down a pole passing through its centre. ─ Chambers's Journal (1859)