[00:09.66]My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf[00:14.40]So, it stood ninety years on the floor[00:19.05]It was taller by half than the old man himself[00:23.94]And it weighed not a penny's weight more[00:28.35]It was bought on the morn that my grandpa was born[00:33.03]And was always his treasure and pride[00:37.68]But it stopped short, never to go again[00:43.86]When the old man died[00:46.95]Ninety years without slumbering[00:51.96]His life's seconds numbering[00:56.37]But it stopped short, never to go again[01:00.90]When the old man died[01:23.31]My grandfather said that of those he could hire[01:27.99]Not a servant so faithful he'd found[01:32.64]For it wasted no time and it had but one desire[01:36.84]At the close of each week to be wound[01:41.01]Yes, it kept in its place but not a frown upon its face[01:45.78]And its hands never hung by its side[01:49.98]But it stopped short, never to go again[01:54.63]When the old man died[02:16.02]It rang an alarm in the dead of the night[02:20.25]An alarm that for years had been dumb[02:24.69]And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight[02:29.01]That his hour for departure had come[02:33.09]Yes, the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled chime[02:37.77]As we stood there and watched by his side[02:42.12]But it stopped short, never to go again[02:46.50]When the old man died[02:47.28]Ninety years without slumbering[02:48.03]His life's seconds numbering[02:49.59]But it stopped short, never to go again[02:51.06]When the old man died