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it pleased him greatly

simply just to own it

or so he said

Lemming's Clock was painfully dear to him

in his old Eagle's eyes

it was vividly read

just after the first world war

it had been bought

a shop keeper in Amsterdam let it go

for but a mere drop

of old Irish whiskey that is

that Lemming had stashed in his old battered

gold capped flask

getting that big old elephant of a clock back

home to the states

now that was indeed at best quite a

cantankerous task

Lemming always reflected that the old clock

had special powers

that helped one retain a vestige of one's

youth

why, he believed this up until the day he died

when he was at the spry young age of one hundred

and two

may God always keep you safe Lemming

as your beloved clock still to this very day

keeps perfect time.....................

(Dec. 11, 1995)