Fixed to the front of the clock case in the north transept of Chester Cathedral is a poem by Henry Twells (1823–1900):

When as a child I laughed and wept,
Time crept.
When as a youth I waxed more bold,
Time strolled.
When I became a full grown man,
Time RAN.
When older still I daily grew,
Time FLEW.
Soon I shall find, in passing on,
Time gone.
O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then?
Amen.

He called it “Time’s Paces.”