Grandfather's Clock /大きな古時計

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

In watching its pendulum swing to and from

Many hours he had spent when a boy

And in childhood and manhood, the clock seemed to know

And to share both his grief and his joy

For it struck 24 when he entered at the door

With a blooming and beautiful bride

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

It rang and alarmed in the dead of the night

An alarm that for years had been dumb

And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight

That his hour for departure had come

Still the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled chime

As we silently stood by his side

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