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My grandfather's clock was to large for the shelf' |
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So it stood ninety years on the floor; |
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It was taller by half than the old man himself' |
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Though it weighed not a pennyweight more. |
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It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born' |
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And was always his treasure and pride. |
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But it stopped short' Never to go again' |
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When the old man died.. |
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In watching its pendulum swing to and fro' |
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Many hours had he spent while a boy; |
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And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know' |
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And to share both his grief and his joy. |
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For it struck twenty-four when he entered the door' |
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With a blooming and beautiful bride. |
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But it stopped short' Never to go again' |
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When the old man died.. |
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Ninety years without slumbering |
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Tick' tock' tick' tock' |
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His life seconds numbering' |
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Tick' tock' tick' tock |
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It stopped short' Never to go again |
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When the old man died. |
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And it kept in its place' not a frown upon its face' |
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And its hands never hung by its side; |
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But it stopped short' Never to go again' |
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When the old man died.. |
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It rang an alarm in the dead of the night' |
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An alarm that for years had been dumb; |
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And we know that his spirit was pluming its flight' |
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That his hour of departure had come. |
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Still the clock kept the time' |
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with a soft muffled chime' |
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As we silently stood by his side; |
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But it stopped short' Never to go again' |
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When the old man died.. |
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When the old man died.. |