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Somewhat back from the village street	A
Stands the old fashioned country seat	A
Across its antique portico	B
Tall poplar trees their shadows throw	B
And from its station in the hall	C
An ancient timepiece says to all	C
Forever never	D
Never forever	D
	-
Half way up the stairs it stands	E
And points and beckons with its hands	E
From its case of massive oak	F
Like a monk who under his cloak	F
Crosses himself and sighs alas	G
With sorrowful voice to all who pass	G
Forever never	D
Never forever	D
	-
By day its voice is low and light	H
But in the silent dead of night	H
Distinct as a passing footstep's fall	C
It echoes along the vacant hall	C
Along the ceiling along the floor	I
And seems to say at each chamber door	I
Forever never	D
Never forever	D
	-
Through days of sorrow and of mirth	J
Through days of death and days of birth	J
Through every swift vicissitude	K
Of changeful time unchanged it has stood	L
And as if like God it all things saw	M
It calmly repeats those words of awe	N
Forever never	D
Never forever	D
	-
In that mansion used to be	O
Free hearted Hospitality	O
His great fires up the chimney roared	P
The stranger feasted at his board	P
But like the skeleton at the feast	Q
That warning timepiece never ceased	Q
Forever never	D
Never forever	D
	-
There groups of merry children played	R
There youths and maidens dreaming strayed	R
O precious hours O golden prime	S
And affluence of love and time	S
Even as a miser counts his gold	T
Those hours the ancient timepiece told	T
Forever never	D
Never forever	D
	-
From that chamber clothed in white	H
The bride came forth on her wedding night	H
There in that silent room below	B
The dead lay in his shroud of snow	B
And in the hush that followed the prayer	U
Was heard the old clock on the stair	U
Forever never	D
Never forever	D
	-
All are scattered now and fled	V
Some are married some are dead	V
And when I ask with throbs of pain	W
Ah when shall they all meet again	X
As in the days long since gone by	Y
The ancient timepiece makes reply	Y
Forever never	D
Never forever	D
	-
Never here forever there	U
Where all parting pain and care	U
And death and time shall disappear	Z
Forever there but never here	A2
The horologe of Eternity	O
Sayeth this incessantly	O
Forever never	D
Never forever	D

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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