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My grandfather's clock was too 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 penny-weight more |
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It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born |
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It 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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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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In watching its pendulum |
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Swing to and fro |
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Many hours had he spent as a boy |
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And in childhood and manhood |
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The clock seemed to know |
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And to share both his grief and his joy |
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And it struck twenty-four |
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When he entered at the door |
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With a blooming and beautiful bride |
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But it stopped short |
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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 |
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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 knew that his spirit was pluming his flight |
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That his hour for departure had come |
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Still the clock kept the time |
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with its' soft and muffled chimes |
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As we silently stood by his side |
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But it stopped short |
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Never to go again |
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When the old man died |
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