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  • My Grandfather's Clock
    Henry Clay Work (1876)

    My Grandfather's Clock
    Was too tall 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
    That the Old Man was born.
    It was always it treasure and pride.
    But it stopped short, never to go again,
    When the Old Man died!

    Ninety years without slumbering,
    Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock!
    His life seconds numbering,
    Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock!
    But it stopped short,
    Never to go again,
    When the Old Man died!