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<h4 class = "headline"><SPAN name="hickory" id = "hickory"> HICKORY DICKORY DOCK.</SPAN></h4> <br> &nbsp; <br> <p class = "stanza"> <span class = "hidden">T</span><span class = "firstword">ick-Tack</span>! tick-tack!</p> <p>This way, that way, forward, back,</p> <p>Swings the pendulum to and fro,</p> <p>Always regular, always slow.</p> <p>Grave and solemn on the wall,&mdash;</p> <p>Hear it whisper! hear it call!</p> <p>Little Ginx knows naught of Time,</p> <p>But has heard the mystic rhyme,&mdash;</p> <p class = "in1">“Hickory, dickory, dock!</p> <p class = "in1">The mouse ran up the clock!”</p> <p class = "stanza in1"> Tick-tack! tick-tack!</p> <p>White old face with figures black!</p> <p>So when dismal, stormy days</p> <p>Keep him from his out-door plays,</p> <p>Most that he cares for is to sit</p> <p>Watching, always watching it.</p> <p>And when the hour strikes he thinks,&mdash;</p> <p>(A dear, wise head has the little Ginx!)</p> <p class = "in1">“The clock strikes one,</p> <p class = "in1">The mice ran down!”</p> <p class = "stanza in1"> Tick-tack! tick-tack!</p> <p>This way, that way, forward, back!</p> <p>Though so measured and precise,</p> <p>Ginx believes it full of mice.</p> <p>A mouse runs up at every tick,</p> <p>But when the stroke comes, scampering quick,</p> <p>Mice run down again; so they go,</p> <p>Up and down, and to and fro!</p> <p class = "in1">Hickory, dickory, dock,</p> <p class = "in1">Full of mice is the clock!</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />