Time Keepers

It’s quarter after Two
said Corporal Boo
Yes I know
Said Sergeant Beau
The Captain, he’ll come ‘round to maintain
That we have kept it just the same
The time, it cannot move for him
The day he met sweet Flora Flynn
But she was bethrothed to another
The man from the Hills of Glen na Toghar
It broke his heart
And he did say
That time must always stay the way
It was on the day
He met sweet Flora Flynn

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This little clock is scarcely 4 cms and these tin soldiers were my sons. I love things in miniature and these guys are steadfast time keepers. They respect their captain’s wishes, but they are too young to understand the significance of time when love is true. Nonetheless they stand guard and will never allow the hour to move beyond quarter past two ... the time their Captain met sweet Flora Flynn.