
Lesson:
- In the old, old hall the old clock stands,
And round and round move the steady hands;
With its tick, tick, tick, both night and day,
While seconds and minutes pass away.
- At the old, old clock oft wonders Nell,
For she can’t make out what it has to tell;
She has ne’er yet read, in prose or rhyme,
That it marks the silent course of time.
- When I was a child, as Nell is now,
And long ere Time had wrinkled my brow,
The old, old clock both by night and day
Said,—’Tick, tick, tick!’ Time passes away.
DEFINITIONS
- Prose: The common language of people in talking or writing.
- Rhyme: Verse, poetry.
- Wrinkled: Having creases or folds in the skin.
- Brow: The forehead.

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