My Grandfather's Clock

My grandfather's clock

Was too large for the shelf

So it stood ninety years on the floor

It was taller by half

Than the old man himself

Though it weighed not a pennyweight more

It was bought on the morn

Of the day that he was born

And was always his treasure and pride

But it stopped short

Never to go again

When the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering

Tick, tock, tick, tock

His life seconds numbering

Tick, tock, tick, tock

It stopped short

Never to go again

When the old man died