[00:09]My grandfather's clock
[00:11]Was too large for the shelf,
[00:14]So it stood ninety years on the floor;
[00:17]It was taller by half
[00:20]Than the old man himself,
[00:22]Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
[00:27]It was bought on the morn
[00:29]Of the day that he was born,
[00:31]And was always his treasure and pride;
[00:36]But it stopped short
[00:39]Never to go again,
[00:41]When the old man died.
[00:45]Ninety years without slumbering,
[00:49]His life seconds numbering,
[00:54]It stopped short
[00:56]Never to go again,
[00:58]When the old man died.
[01:03]My grandfather said
[01:05]That of those he could hire,
[01:07]Not a servant so faithful he found;
[01:12]For it wasted no time,
[01:15]And had but one desire,
[01:17]At the close of each week to be wound.
[01:21]And it kept in its place,
[01:23]Not a frown upon its face,
[01:25]And its hand never hung by its side.
[01:29]But it stopped short
[01:32]Never to go again,
[01:34]When the old man died.
[01:41]It rang an alarm
[01:43]In the dead of the night,
[01:45]An alarm that for years had been dumb;
[01:50]And we knew that his spirit
[01:52]Was pluming for flight,
[01:54]That his hour of departure had come.
[01:58]Still the clock kept the time,
[02:00]With a soft and muffled chime,
[02:03]As we silently stood by his side.
[02:06]But it stopped short
[02:10]Never to go again,
[02:12]When the old man died.
[02:17]Ninety years without slumbering,
[02:21]His life seconds numbering,
[02:26]It stopped short
[02:28]Never to go again,
[02:30]When the old man died.