00:10My Grandfather's Clock
00:12My grandfather's clock was too large for the shell,
00:15So it stood ninety years on the floor.
00:19It was taller by half than the old man himself,
00:25Though it weighed not a penny weight more.
00:29He was born all the more, all the day that he was born,
00:34It was always his treasure and pride.
00:39But it stopped short, never to go again,
00:44When the old man died.
00:49Ninety years without slumbering,
00:52Tick-tock, tick-tock,
00:54Talk his life seconds numbering,
00:57Tick-tock, tick-tock,
00:59It stopped short, never to go again,
01:04Where the old man died.
01:18In watching its pendulum swing to and fro,
01:23Many hours at his bed while a boy.
01:27And in childhood and man who the clock seemed to know,
01:33And to share both his grief and his joy.
01:37So it struck twenty-four when he answered at the door,
01:43With a plurimy and beautiful pride.
01:47But it stopped short, never to go again,
01:53When the old man died.
01:57Ninety years without slumbering,
02:01Tick-tock, tick-tock,
02:05Tick-tock, tick-tock,
02:08It stopped short, never to go again,
02:12When the old man died.
02:27My grandfather said,
02:29That of those he could hide,
02:32Not a servant so faithful he found.
02:37For it wasted no time,
02:39And had but one desire,
02:42That the close of each tree to be well.
02:45And it kept in its place,
02:49Not a frown upon its face,
02:52And its hands never hung by its side.
02:56But it stopped short,
02:59Never to go again,
03:01When the old man died.
03:06Ninety years without slumbering,
03:09Tick-tock, tick-tock,
03:11His life seconds slumbering,
03:14Tick-tock, tick-tock,
03:16It stopped short, never to go again,
03:21When the old man died.
03:35It rang an alarm in the dead of the night,
03:40An alarm that for years had been done,
03:45And we knew that his spirit was blooming for flight,
03:50That his hour of departure had come.
03:55Still the clock kept in time,
03:58With a soft and muffled chime,
04:00As we silently stood by his side.
04:04But it stopped short,
04:07Never to go again,
04:10When the old man died.
04:15Ninety years without slumbering,
04:18Tick-tock, tick-tock,
04:20His life seconds slumbering,
04:23Tick-tock, tick-tock,
04:25It stopped short,
04:27Never to go again,
04:30When the old man died.
