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A clock aeonian steady and tall	A
With its back to creation's flaming wall	A
Stands at the foot of a dim wide stair	B
Swing swang its pendulum goes	C
Swing swang here there	B
Its tick and its tack like the sledge hammer blows	C
Of Tubal Cain the mighty man	D
But they strike on the anvil of never an ear	E
On the heart of man and woman they fall	A
With an echo of blessing an echo of ban	D
For each tick is a hope each tack is a fear	F
Each tick is a Where each tack a Not here	E
Each tick is a kiss each tack is a blow	G
Each tick says Why each tack I don't know	G
Swing swang the pendulum	H
Tick and tack and go and come	H
With a haunting far off dreamy hum	H
With a tick tack loud and dumb	H
Swings the pendulum	H
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Two hands together joined in prayer	B
With a roll and a volley of spheric thunder	I
Two hands in hope spread half asunder	I
An empty gulf of longing embrace	J
Two hands wide apart as they can fare	B
In a fear still coasting not touching Despair	B
But turning again ever round to prayer	B
Two hands human hands pass with awful motion	K
From isle to isle of the sapphire ocean	K
	-
The silent surfaceless ocean face	J
Is filled with a brooding hearkening grace	J
The stars dream in and sink fainting out	L
And the sun and the moon go walking about	L
Walking about in it solemn and slow	G
Solemn and slow at a thinking pace	J
Walking about in it to and fro	G
Walking walking about	L
	-
With open beak and half open wing	M
Ever with eagerness quivering	M
On the peak of the clock	N
Stands a cock	N
Tip toe stands the cock to crow	G
Golden cock with silver call	A
Clear as trumpet tearing the sky	O
No one yet has heard him cry	O
Nor ever will till the hour supreme	P
When Self on itself shall turn with a scream	P
What time the hands are joined on high	O
In a hoping despairing speechless sigh	O
The perfect groan prayer of the universe	Q
When the darkness clings and will not disperse	Q
Though the time is come told ages ago	G
For the great white rose of the world to blow	G
Tick tack to the waiting cock	N
Tick tack goes the aeon clock	N
	-
A polar bear golden and gray	R
Crawls and crawls around the top	S
Black and black as an Ethiop	S
The great sea serpent lies coiled beneath	T
Living living but does not breathe	U
For the crawling bear is so far away	R
That he cannot hear by night or day	R
The bourdon big of his deep bear bass	V
Roaring atop of the silent face	J
Else would he move and none knows then	W
What would befall the sons of men	W
	-
Eat up old Time O raging Bear	B
Take Bald head and the children spare	B
Lie still O Serpent nor let one breath	X
Stir thy pool and stay Time's death	X
Steady Hands for the noon is nigh	O
See the silvery ghost of the Dawning shy	O
Low on the floor of the level sky	O
Warn for the strike O blessed Clock	N
Gather thy clarion breath gold Cock	N
Push on the month figures pale weary faced Moon	Y
Tick awful Pendulum tick amain	Y
And soon oh soon	Y
Lord of life and Father of boon	Y
Give us our own in our arms again	Y
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Then the great old clock to pieces will fall	A
Sans groaning of axle or whirring of wheel	Z
And away like a mist of the morning steal	Z
To stand no more in creation's hall	A
Its mighty weights will fall down plumb	H
Into the regions where all is dumb	H
No more will its hands in horror or prayer	B
Be lifted or spread at the foot of the stair	B
That springs aloft to the Father's room	A2
Its tick and its tack When Not now	Y
Will cease and its muffled groan below	G
Its sapphire face will dissolve away	R
In the dawn of the perfect love potent day	R
The serpent and bear will be seen no more	B2
Growling atop or prone on the floor	B2
And up the stair will run as they please	C2
The children to clasp the Father's knees	C2
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O God our father Allhearts' All	A
Open the doors of thy clockless hall	A

George Macdonald

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