Barton Booth Quote

True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.


Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part iii, Canto ii, line 175.


True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.