「Grandfather's Clock」
1. My grandfather's clock was to large for the
shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor;
It was taller by half
than the old man himself,
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It
was bought on the morn of the day that he was born,
And was always his
treasure and pride.
But it stopp'd short, Never to go again,
When the
old man died..
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Ninety years without
slumbering
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds
numbering,
Tick, tock, tick, tock
It stopp'd short, Never to
go again
When the old man died.
2. In watching its pendulum swing to and
fro,
Many hours had he spent while a boy;
And in childhood and manhood
the clock seemed to know,
And to share both his grief and his joy.
For
it struck twenty-four when he entered the door,
With a blooming and
beautiful bride.
But it stopp'd short, Never to go again,
When the old
man died..
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3. My grandfather said, that of those he could
hire,
Not a servant so faithful he found:
For it wasted no time, and
had but one desire,
At the close of each week to be wound.
And it kept
in its place, not a frown upon its face,
And its hands never hung by its
side;
But it stopp'd short, Never to go again,
When the old man
died..
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4. It rang an alarm in the dead of the
night,
And alarm that for years had been dumb;
And we know that his
spirit was pluming its flight,
That his hour of departure had
come.
Still the clock kept the time, with a soft muffled chime,
As we
silently stood by his side;
But it stopp'd short, Never to go
again,
When the old man died.
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