The inscription accompanying Mercury is from A Song of Travel, by Rudyard Kipling, and reads:
BY OUR ARTS DO WE CREATE
THAT WHICH TIME HIMSELF DEVOURS
SUCH MACHINES AS MAY WELL RUN
‘GAINST THE HORSES OF THE SUN
The inscription accompanying Mercury is from A Song of Travel, by Rudyard Kipling, and reads:
BY OUR ARTS DO WE CREATE
THAT WHICH TIME HIMSELF DEVOURS
SUCH MACHINES AS MAY WELL RUN
‘GAINST THE HORSES OF THE SUN