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Grandfather's Clock

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My grandfather's clock was

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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

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than the old man himself

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Though it weighed not

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a penny-weight more.

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It was bought on the morn

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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,

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never to go again 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's seconds numbering,

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tick, tock, tick tock.

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It stopped short, never to run

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again when the old man died.