{"id":1801,"date":"2015-05-25T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T21:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2015-05-25T21:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T21:34:30","slug":"i-had-no-time-old-clocks-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/i-had-no-time-old-clocks-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"I Had No Time Old Clocks to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Had No Time Old Clocks to See\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9PHoad-2Qk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While walking in Prague way back in 2009 or so, I saw an old clock shop that I wanted to visit but was in a hurry to somewhere else before it closed. Should I be in Prague again, I do intend to visit it. The latest of my reposted poems&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had no time old clocks to see<br \/>\nIn a hurry I could not stop<br \/>\nEven though to do so I desired<br \/>\nAnd enter the old clock shop<br \/>\nAnd browse the shelves of dials and watches<br \/>\nAnd stroll within its ticking stock<br \/>\nFor I love old watches and timepieces<br \/>\nAnd their soft and strong ticks and tock.<\/p>\n<p>But I had no time to see<br \/>\nThe inside of the old clock shop there<br \/>\nFor Prague had too much else to occupy me<br \/>\nAnd to myself I did swear<br \/>\nThat if ever in Prague I have the time<br \/>\nThat old clock shop I will drop by<br \/>\nAnd among the ticks and the tocks<br \/>\nI shall browse and watch time fly<\/p>\n<p>And hands shoot round faces fast and slow<br \/>\nAnd others unwound don&#8217;t tick at all<br \/>\nI will be like a mechanic in a car factory<br \/>\nOr like a dancer at a ball<br \/>\nAnd I declare in a day to come<br \/>\nShould I with time, and in Prague be<br \/>\nI shall send a little time<br \/>\nIn that clock shop just passed there by me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking in Prague way back in 2009 or so, I saw an old clock shop that I wanted to visit but was in a hurry to somewhere else before it closed. Should I be in Prague again, I do intend to visit it. The latest of my reposted poems&#8230; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[462,8,81],"tags":[464,1960,1959,440],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-from-prague","category-travel","category-travel-poems","tag-prague","tag-praha","tag-travel-clocks","tag-walk","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-t3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2700,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/keeping-time-throughout-the-ages\/","url_meta":{"origin":1801,"position":0},"title":"Keeping Time Throughout The Ages","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"24th April 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8LtqNZY2ujE The Prague Clock... words to be posted! 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