[00:07.970]My grandfather's clock
[00:09.980]Was too large for the shelf,
[00:11.920]So it stood ninety years on the floor;
[00:16.110]It was taller by half
[00:18.150]Than the old man himself,
[00:20.500]Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
[00:24.100]It was bought on the morn
[00:26.900]Of the day that he was born,
[00:28.900]And was always his treasure and pride;
[00:32.299]But it stopped short
[00:34.220]Never to go again,
[00:36.300]When the old man died.
[00:39.820]
[00:40.420]Ninety years without slumbering,
[00:42.480]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[00:44.280]His life seconds numbering,
[00:46.270]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[00:48.700]It stopped short
[00:50.110]Never to go again,
[00:51.700]When the old man died.
[00:55.320]
[00:55.820]In watching its pendulum
[00:58.220]Swing to and fro,
[00:59.670]Many hours had he spent while a boy;
[01:03.620]And in childhood and manhood
[01:06.110]The clock seemed to know,
[01:07.620]And to share both his grief and his joy.
[01:11.570]For it struck twenty-four
[01:13.580]When he entered at the door,
[01:15.480]With a blooming and beautiful bride;
[01:19.330]But it stopped short
[01:21.770]Never to go again,
[01:23.320]When the old man died.
[01:26.990]
[01:27.380]Ninety years without slumbering,
[01:29.830]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[01:31.390]His life seconds numbering,
[01:33.440]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[01:35.240]It stopped short
[01:37.390]Never to go again,
[01:38.880]When the old man died.
[01:42.630]
[01:42.880]My grandfather said
[01:44.740]That of those he could hire,
[01:46.640]Not a servant so faithful he found;
[01:50.650]For it wasted no time,
[01:52.650]And had but one desire,
[01:54.900]At the close of each week to be wound.
[01:58.700]And it kept in its place,
[02:00.840]Not a frown upon its face,
[02:02.650]And its hand never hung by its side.
[02:06.650]But it stopped short
[02:09.160]Never to go again,
[02:10.550]When the old man died.
[02:14.260]
[02:14.560]Ninety years without slumbering,
[02:17.200]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[02:18.720]His life seconds numbering,
[02:20.770]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[02:22.540]It stopped short
[02:24.490]Never to go again,
[02:26.300]When the old man died.
[02:29.790]
[02:30.140]It rang an alarm
[02:32.550]In the dead of the night,
[02:34.540]An alarm that for years had been dumb;
[02:38.400]And we knew that his spirit
[02:40.480]Was pluming for flight,
[02:42.190]That his hour of departure had come.
[02:46.790]Still the clock kept the time,
[02:48.140]With a soft and muffled chime,
[02:50.140]As we silently stood by his side.
[02:54.250]But it stopped short
[02:56.780]Never to go again,
[02:58.140]When the old man died.
[03:01.590]
[03:01.990]Ninety years without slumbering,
[03:04.490]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[03:06.280]His life seconds numbering,
[03:08.380]Tick, tock, tick, tock,
[03:10.170]It stopped short
[03:12.120]Never to go again,
[03:13.470]When the old man died.