[00:07.97]My grandfather's clock
[00:09.98]Was too large for the shelf,
[00:11.92]So it stood ninety years on the floor;
[00:16.11]It was taller by half
[00:18.15]Than the old man himself,
[00:20.05]Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
[00:24.10]It was bought on the morn
[00:26.09]Of the day that he was born,
[00:28.09]And was always his treasure and pride;
[00:32.03]But it stopped short
[00:34.22]Never to go again,
[00:36.03]When the old man died.
[00:39.82]
[00:40.42]Ninety years without slumbering,
[00:42.48]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[00:44.28]His life seconds numbering,
[00:46.27]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[00:48.07]It stopped short
[00:50.11]Never to go again,
[00:51.70]When the old man died.
[00:55.32]
[00:55.82]In watching its pendulum
[00:58.22]Swing to and fro,
[00:59.67]Many hours had he spent while a boy;
[01:03.62]And in childhood and manhood
[01:06.11]The clock seemed to know,
[01:07.62]And to share both his grief and his joy.
[01:11.57]For it struck twenty-four
[01:13.58]When he entered at the door,
[01:15.48]With a blooming and beautiful bride;
[01:19.33]But it stopped short
[01:21.77]Never to go again,
[01:23.32]When the old man died.
[01:26.99]
[01:27.38]Ninety years without slumbering,
[01:29.83]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[01:31.39]His life seconds numbering,
[01:33.44]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[01:35.24]It stopped short
[01:37.39]Never to go again,
[01:38.88]When the old man died.
[01:42.63]
[01:42.88]My grandfather said
[01:44.74]That of those he could hire,
[01:46.64]Not a servant so faithful he found;
[01:50.65]For it wasted no time,
[01:52.65]And had but one desire,
[01:54.90]At the close of each week to be wound.
[01:58.70]And it kept in its place,
[02:00.84]Not a frown upon its face,
[02:02.65]And its hand never hung by its side.
[02:06.65]But it stopped short
[02:09.16]Never to go again,
[02:10.55]When the old man died.
[02:14.26]
[02:14.56]Ninety years without slumbering,
[02:17.02]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[02:18.72]His life seconds numbering,
[02:20.77]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[02:22.54]It stopped short
[02:24.49]Never to go again,
[02:26.03]When the old man died.
[02:29.79]
[02:30.14]It rang an alarm
[02:32.55]In the dead of the night,
[02:34.54]An alarm that for years had been dumb;
[02:38.04]And we knew that his spirit
[02:40.48]Was pluming for flight,
[02:42.19]That his hour of departure had come.
[02:46.08]Still the clock kept the time,
[02:48.14]With a soft and muffled chime,
[02:50.14]As we silently stood by his side.
[02:54.25]But it stopped short
[02:56.78]Never to go again,
[02:58.14]When the old man died.
[03:01.59]
[03:01.99]Ninety years without slumbering,
[03:04.49]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[03:06.28]His life seconds numbering,
[03:08.38]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[03:10.17]It stopped short
[03:12.12]Never to go again,
[03:13.47]When the old man died.