T. S. Eliot - 'Faraday' sculpture - The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, U.K. - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

The University's Sculpture Trail guide shows that the lines cut in the bronze around the base are from 'The Dry Salvages' by T. S. Eliot and reflect upon growth and change, and bear a valuable message for all University Students:' but quotes a different part of section III of the poem: 'Here between the hither and the shore, While time is withdrawn, consider the future, And the past with an equal mind.' (visit link)

The quote is from the third of the five sections of the poem 'The Dry Salvages' which is the third poem of T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets'. The poem was written and published in 1941 during the air raids on London in WWII. The title is derived from a coastal rock formation off Cape Ann, Massacheuetts which is a place where Eliot spent time in his childhood. (visit link)
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Section III, in full, is as follows:
'I sometimes wonder if that is what Krishna meant -
Among other things - or one way of putting the same thing:
That the future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavendar spray
Of wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret,
Pressed between yellow leaves of a book that has never been opened.
And the way up is the way down, the way forward is the way back.
You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,
That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.
When the train starts, and the passengers are settled
To fruit, periodicals and business letters
(And those who saw them off have left the platform)
Their faces relax from grief into relief,
To the sleepy rhythm of a hundred hours.
Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;
You are not the same people who left the station
Or who will arrive at any terminus,
While the narrowing rails slide together behind you;
And on the deck of the drumming liner
Watching the furrow that widens behind you,
You shall not think 'the past is finished'
Or 'the future is before us'.
At nightfall, in the rigging and the aerial,
Is a voice of descanting (though not to the ear,
The murmuring shell of tiem, and not in any language)
'Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging;
You are not those who saw the harbour
Receding, or those who will disembark.
Here between the hither and the farther shore
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind.
At the moment which is not of action or inaction
You can receive this:"on whatever sphere of being
The mind of a man may be intent.
At the time of death" - that is the one action
(And the time of death is every moment)
Which shall fructifyin the lives of others:
And do not think of the fruit of action.
Fare forward.
O voyages, O seamen,
You who came to port, and you whose bodies
Will suffer the trian and judgement of the sea,
Or whatever event, this is your real destination.'
So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna
Or the field of battle.
Not fare well,
But fare forward, voyagers.

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The sculpture was commissioned to mark the centenary of the University of Birmingham's Royal Charter in 2000. The sculptor has said that the sculpture was 'not of Faraday, but for him.' (visit link)