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The Clock

By Carole Dudley

Topics: Poetry Source: AllPoetry Original source

The clock that ticks upon the wall     ticks on in spring and fall, and fall. It ticked for him; it ticked for me     as if to tell eternity. It ticked when to his eyes I clung,     and when the New-Year song was sung, And when he died in summer's glow,     the pendulum sighed of snow, of snow. It preaches of time to a barren house,     to vacant rooms, a feathery mouse. For you, my love, whom I adored,     its ticking Stopped. Written December 5th, 2001 © on Dec 05 2001 03:58 AM PST, Carole Dudley   0 • 8

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