Tick Tock, Tick Tock, <br />goes my mothers little clock <br />sitting on the mantelpiece <br />time marching to its tempo <br /> <br />It's sat up there for fifty years <br />watching my life disappear <br />happy with its little lot <br />Tick Tock, Tick Tock,<br /><br />Charles M. Moore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tick-tock-tick-tock/