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THE CLOCK by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: EVERY TICK AND EVERY TOCK
Last Line: "HAS MOLLY DROPPED DOWN DEAD?"
Subject(s): CLOCKS; TIME;

EVERY tick and every tock
That comes from my old clock,
Keeps time to Molly's step;
And when it cries "Cuckoo,"
Her hand should knock below.

Unless -- for now I see
The clock looks down at me
With a white and silent face;
It stops, and not one beat
Keeps time to Molly's feet.

Then, staring at that clock,
Whose every tick and tock
Should be one step of hers,
"Why have you stopped," I said --
"Has Molly dropped down dead?"



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