Father Time

"'Truly you should thank the storm fairy,' said the old man, "'for had you not been wrecked upon this island, never would you have discovered the lost half-hour.

I—' and father time himself and these are my twelve sons the hours every day one after the other they ride for an hour round the whole wide world seven o'clock has just ridden forth yes you shall have the lost half hour but you must look after my sons horses for the space of a whole year to this bobo willingly agreed so twelve o'clock who was the youngest of the hours took him to the stables and showed him the little room in the turret that he was to have and thus for a year bobo served father time and his sons he took such good care of the great black horses of the hours of the night and the white horses of the hours of the day that they were never more proud and strong nor their coats smoother and more gleaming when the year was up bobo again sought out father time You have served faithfully and well, said Father Time.

Here is your reward.

And, with these words, he placed in Bobo's hands a small square casket made of ebony.

If you do, the half-hour will fly away and disappear forever.

Farewell, Bobo, said the kind young Twelve O'Clock, who had been the simpleton's good friend.

i too have a gift for thee drink this cup of water to the last drop and the youth handed the simpleton a silver cup full to the brim of clear shining water now this water was the water of wisdom and when bobo had drunk it he was no longer a simpleton and being no longer a simpleton he remembered the man who had lost his reputation the man who had lost his temper and the king whose daughter had been stolen by the fairies So Bobo made so bold as to ask Father Time about them, for Father Time knows everything that has happened in the whole wide world.

Tell the first, said Father Time, that his reputation has been broken into a thousand pieces, which have been picked up by his neighbors and carried home.

"'Well, I'm Time.

Father Time.

Now make haste and set me free, if you want the world to run properly.' "'How did I happen to catch you?' asked Jim, without making a move to release his captive.' "'I don't know.

I've never been caught before,' growled Father Time.

"'But I suppose it was because you were foolishly throwing your lasso at nothing.' "'I didn't see you,' said Jim.

"'Of course you didn't.

It really was funny to see the old man wound round and round with coils of rope from his knees up to his chin.

"'It'll do you good to rest,' said the boy.

Merry Christmas.

"My dear young friend," said Father Time as he laid his hand gently upon my shoulder, "you are entirely wrong." Then I looked up over my shoulder from the table at which I was sitting, and I saw him.

But I had known or felt for at least the last half hour that he was standing somewhere near me.

You have had, I do not doubt, good reader, more than once that strange uncanny feeling that there is someone unseen standing beside you in a darkened room, let us say, with a dying fire when the night has grown late and the October wind sounds low outside, and when through the thin curtain that we call reality, the unseen world starts for a moment clear upon our dreaming sense.

Don't let's bother with your experience.

I want to tell mine.

"You are quite mistaken, my dear young friend," repeated Father Time.

"Quite wrong." "Young friend?" I said.

Furthermore, the word honorificabilitudinitatibus appearing in the fifth act of Love's Labour's Lost is a Rosicrucian signature, as its numerical equivalent, two hundred and eighty-seven, indicates.

Again, on the title page of the first edition of Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, Father Time is depicted bringing a female figure out of the darkness of a cave.

Around the device is a Latin inscription: In time the secret truth shall be revealed.

The catchwords and printer's devices appearing in volumes published especially during the first half of the seventeenth century were designed, arranged, and in some cases mutilated according to a definite plan.

In his restored New Testament, James Morgan Price traces the relationship of the various parts of the Alpha and Omega to the seven sacred planets of the ancients.

To quote, "The Logos figure described is a composite picture of the seven sacred planets.

He has the snowy white hair of Chronos, Father Time, the blazing eyes of wide-seeing Zeus, the sword of Arcs, the shining face of Helios, and the chiton and girdle of Aphrodite.

His feet are of Mercury, the metal sacred to Hermes, and his voice is like the murmur of the ocean's waves, the many waters alluding to Selene, the moon goddess of the four seasons and of the waters.

Will there never be an end to these dormitory farces, he moans, pondering darkly the while how he may transmute its leaden dullness to the precious gold of a scintillating paragraph.

Father Time has nothing to say on the matter.

If you ask him to show you a new thing, he shrugs his wings and growls, You can search me.

Things old and things new are all alike to Father Time.

paraventure in the uttermost recess of the great pyramid lies a hair of an unknown colour or a blue-print of the fourth dimension or better still the manuscript of a new play or a joke that has never been cracked When a Roman bath is unearthed in Kent, or a milliner's shop in Pompeii, we wait breathless to hear of the discovery of a new story, or a new dress pattern.

But always it is the same old skull, the same old amphora.

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I climbed the hill, though I had more than one tumble in doing it, and there on the tip-top I found a house as old as the world itself.

That was where Father Time lived, and who should sit in the sun at the door, spinning away for dear life, but Time's grandmother herself.

And if you would like to know how old she is, you will have to climb to the top of the church steeple and ask the wind as he sits upon the weathercock, humming the tune of Over Yonder Song to himself.

Good morning, says Time's grandmother to me.

Across this meadow she went on and on and on, but never a single soul did she see until at last she came to a great fine house that stood all alone by itself, without another to be seen near or afar.

In the doorway of the house stood an old woman whom the princess saw very plainly was not like common folk.

And she was right, for the old woman was none other than Mother Hildegard, who is so wise that she knows almost as much as Father Time himself.

Thus it was that she knew all about the princess and who she was and whence she came without the asking.

I love my old audience.

You know, Father Time's going to get all of us.

But there's a lot of old people that they're done.

Their brains are made up.