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A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's;

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A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's;     Geneva's farthest skill     Can't put the puppet bowing     That just now dangled still.     An awe came on the trinket!     The figures hunched with pain,     Then quivered out of decimals     Into degreeless noon.     It will not stir for doctors,     This pendulum of snow;     The shopman importunes it,     While cool, concernless No     Nods from the gilded pointers,     Nods from the seconds slim,     Decades of arrogance between     The dial life and him.

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