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Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3820 (September 23rd, 1914)
To a Pompadour Clock by Percy Haselden
4258021Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3820 (September 23rd, 1914) — To a Pompadour ClockPercy Haselden

Bright loves and tangled flowers
Adorn your china face;
You beat out silver hours
Within your golden case.

Still rings old Time's denial
Of respite in your tone,
But o'er your painted dial
Is built a little throne—

A throne so neat and narrow
Where, heedless of your chime,
Poising his gilded arrow
Sits Cupid killing Time!